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Speaker 2: talking about free all day. Said well man, I go

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Speaker 2: It's only one group of people willing to let you

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Speaker 2: try their stuff. I'm just being real. They had the

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Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, okay, people want to try it first,

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Speaker 2: So we start giving it away and then when people

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Speaker 4: They just want to see it live.

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Speaker 5: My graduates from my school being Forbes back drop, Mike

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Speaker 6: All right, guys, welcome back EYL South Atlanta Edition. This

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Speaker 6: is something that we've been looking forward to for a

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Speaker 6: long time, actually since we probably even started the show.

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Speaker 6: Was one of the main targets. E T the hip

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Speaker 6: hop preacher Eric Thomas, a legend in the game, in

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Speaker 6: my opinion.

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Speaker 3: The number one motivational speaker in the world.

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Speaker 6: Correct me if I'm wrong, Not that's.

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Speaker 4: What, that's what Let's says.

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Speaker 3: Let's brown.

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Speaker 6: So you know, you probably obviously have seen clips on Instagram, YouTube,

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Speaker 6: stuff like that, but there's always more to the story.

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Speaker 6: And it's interesting because even researching you, there's not a

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Speaker 6: lot of information about you, and it's it's a lot

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Speaker 6: of speeches, it's a lot of but it's not a

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Speaker 6: And when people look at things, they don't necessarily look

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Speaker 6: to see the business side of it. So that brings

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Speaker 6: me to the good Brother CJ. So CJ is somebody

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Speaker 6: that you might not be familiar with, but CJ is

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Speaker 6: somebody that I was introduced to early on from shout

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Speaker 6: out to my guy Alex.

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Speaker 3: Good energy was with us.

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Speaker 6: So when I first met Alex and he was telling

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Speaker 6: he's like, CJ is the person that you have God's like,

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Speaker 6: and then he told me about you and then shout

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Speaker 6: out to Nikki. She's here a legend, Yes, a legend

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Speaker 6: in the game contentyl alumna. She told me about you.

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Speaker 6: So I've been hearing about your name. I think I

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Speaker 6: This is a very rare between that you get to

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Speaker 6: hear him speak. So we got a two for one.

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Speaker 6: We got too.

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Speaker 4: On the platform, not our own, I guess one of

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I appreciate and I appreciate you. So this is

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Speaker 6: gonna be a powerful conversation. We're gona go through the journey.

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Speaker 6: We gon talk about business, were gonna talk about scale,

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Speaker 6: We're gonna talk about how you guys, you know, got

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Speaker 6: to where you are now and where you're planning on going.

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Speaker 6: So first and foremost, thank you for joining us. Appreciate it. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: So all right, so let's start. There's a lot of

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Speaker 6: things I want to talk about, but let's get let's

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Speaker 6: get some of the badstory. I got introduced to you

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Speaker 6: a few years ago on social media, just watching the

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Speaker 6: I don't even know this story climbing up. So can

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Speaker 6: you tell a little backstory of what made you get

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Speaker 6: into the field of motivational speaking, because it's something that

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Speaker 7: I'm gonna be real, I think I'm number one just

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Speaker 7: because as a as a people, we have forgotten, you know,

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Speaker 7: So I've always been connected to that part of our

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Speaker 7: one of these days, like I'm gonna do that right there,

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Speaker 7: and I'm gonna do that for my people. So just

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Speaker 7: growing up in Detroit, I'm originally from Chicago. You know,

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Speaker 7: So most of my life, you know, back and forth

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Speaker 7: Then I went to an HBCU and all we talk

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Speaker 7: So that's where I started not speaking like people think

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Speaker 7: so Black College was like, yo, you got to give back.

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Speaker 7: So I would go to the hood. I'd go to

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Speaker 4: So that was my students. So I was on the

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Speaker 7: After my class, I'd be on the block, sitting down

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Speaker 7: and I pay attention like, ooh they feeling that, Oh

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Speaker 7: they love that story. Oh they like when I do

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Speaker 7: take that from that, taken to the college campus, We

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Speaker 7: had a ministry Bell Tower Ministry every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday,

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Speaker 7: really feeling like that church stuff. They would come to

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Speaker 8: So let's talk about the church for a second, because

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Speaker 8: the early stages, obviously there was homostician story and there's

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Speaker 8: So I'm wondering that that moment changed the trajectory of

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Speaker 8: how you were going to think. And is that the

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Speaker 8: reason that you just said I need to pour back

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Speaker 3: Now I got to pay before.

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Speaker 7: Well, you know what was crazy is like I was

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Speaker 7: always sandwiched prior to like what I learned, bro, And

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Speaker 7: I'm being real like, how like, let's say you in

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Speaker 7: just like yo, Biggie, you know what I'm saying. You

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Speaker 7: like jay Z, you know what I'm saying just certain

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Speaker 7: figures when you grew up. When I grew up, it

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Speaker 7: was Martin Luther King was just like Bro, like bigger

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Speaker 4: He bigger than anybody.

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Speaker 7: Every house you go to, they got to picture doctor

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Speaker 7: to give back. Why because not only did Martin get back,

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Speaker 7: it was like he had just gotten shot. Like it

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Speaker 7: wasn't like you got Biggie shot pot imagine I'm boring

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Speaker 7: nineteen seventy. Martin Kick just got shot. So they were

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Speaker 7: still talking about King like he was alive.

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Speaker 3: You feel me.

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Speaker 7: So when you were shorty, everything you hear TV, everything,

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Speaker 7: I have a dream speech, like everything you hear is

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Speaker 7: Martin Martin. So I always felt like rosa parts like

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Speaker 7: felt like I gotta do that. I wasn't necessarily doing it,

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Speaker 8: So after that, you know it's interesting. You got your ged. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: He studied education at Oakwood, had a degree in education leadership.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, graduated, went to Michigan State. Absolutely when you met

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Speaker 7: I was like, bet, I got you. So I end

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Speaker 7: He's like, ee, I don't know where I'm gonna put you,

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Speaker 7: like he from that era. So we chopping it up

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Speaker 7: I'm like, I'm in Michigan State. I just got hired,

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Speaker 4: He was like you lying. I was like yeah.

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Speaker 7: He's like, yeah, my son up there, and he doing

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Speaker 3: I'm like whatever.

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Speaker 7: I brushed it off, like if you're up there, he

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Speaker 7: And I guess that Monday. We were together Friday, and

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Speaker 4: I was like, bet, I'm not lying to you. Like

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Speaker 7: The work that I had done before. It's like a

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Speaker 4: He watched.

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Speaker 7: It was like, I see you tomorrow and from that

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Speaker 3: We haven't separated since that day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So it was crazy too, bro, just to elaborate,

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Speaker 2: Like my dad was so adamant about me meeting this dude,

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Speaker 2: Like my dad ain't really on that, you know what

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Speaker 2: I meant this dude, Eric Thomas, you need to go

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Speaker 2: see him. I got his card, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: This is addresses office. I'm like, bet he called me Saturday.

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Speaker 2: It was like, hey, remember on Monday morning I told

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Speaker 2: Hit me up, like you on your way. I was like, man, yeah, bro,

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Speaker 2: like so went straight over there. So Pops was really

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Speaker 6: What was your early responsibilities, like when you first started

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Speaker 4: You know what I didn't know.

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Speaker 2: The first thing that he taught me was that this

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned that I don't do a lot in front

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Speaker 2: I always had to give to speak. I was introducing

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Speaker 3: We just went up there.

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Speaker 2: And we went up there and he was like, yo,

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Speaker 2: I was just really rolling with him.

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Speaker 3: So at what point do you realize it's better for

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll never forget. And everybody probably seen the speech.

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Speaker 2: Somebody pissed E off. He was in a bad mood,

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Speaker 2: So I was like okay, cool now. Just so happened

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Speaker 2: So we sitting in the room, I'm like, all right,

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Speaker 2: Then you'll be successful. And everybody knows that video now.

436
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Speaker 2: It is one of the most famous motivational speeches of

437
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Speaker 2: all times. And I say, yo, that was cool, right,

438
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Speaker 2: And then this was on a Tuesday night. I was

439
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Speaker 2: so inspired, y'all. I was like, Yo, it's the best

440
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Speaker 2: thing I ever heard. I literally have the best motivational

441
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Speaker 2: speaker in the world. I called a local middle school

442
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Speaker 2: the next day and I was like, yo, I got

443
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Speaker 2: this dude. His name is Eric Thomas. I'm telling you

444
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Speaker 2: he's crazy. Like, Yo, we want to come up there

445
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Speaker 2: and do some work cause he told me we needed

446
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Speaker 2: to get reps and he was like, don't even worry

447
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Speaker 2: about the bread. I was like, look, we don't need

448
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Speaker 2: no money, which you wanna come up there? And they

449
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Speaker 2: was like what's his name? I was like Eric Thomas.

450
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Speaker 2: They was like, okay, we'll call you back. They ain't

451
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Speaker 2: called me back. Next day, I called him up, like, Yo,

452
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Speaker 2: we wanna come up and do this work. I was like,

453
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Speaker 2: what's his name again? I said Eric Thomas. It was like, sorry,

454
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Speaker 2: we we don't. Yeah, we don't. We don't. We don't

455
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Speaker 2: really need that m And I remember thinking to myself. Yo,

456
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Speaker 2: I just heard the greatest motivational speech in the world,

457
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Speaker 2: and yet nobody cares. And I when I realized nobody cares,

458
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Speaker 2: I said, Okay, that's your lane. Now your job is

459
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Speaker 2: to make people care. And so from that day for

460
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Speaker 2: I called a meeting. I put Pulled E in the room,

461
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Speaker 2: pulled Carl, our media director in the room. I said, look,

462
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Speaker 2: I'm not speaking no more. This is no longer the

463
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Speaker 2: Jackson five were going straight Michael Jackson, I said, cause

464
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Speaker 2: we were going under the name Break the Cycle when

465
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Speaker 2: I was the crew. Well, you know, we had a

466
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Speaker 2: little here like with Bell Vivi Devot something like that.

467
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Speaker 2: So I but I said, look, I said, lose Break

468
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Speaker 2: the Cycle. I said, said, nobody knows who Break the

469
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Speaker 2: Cycle is, right, Like it's a company. I said, Carl,

470
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Speaker 2: don't edit my stuff no more. I'm no longer speaking.

471
00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:09,400
Speaker 2: I literally like stepped behind the scenes and was like, yo,

472
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Speaker 2: everything we do. So there was this new thing that

473
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Speaker 2: came out called YouTube, and I told my boy, I

474
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Speaker 2: was like, hey, figure out if you can figure out

475
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Speaker 2: how to build this channel, and he was like, Karl

476
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Speaker 2: could do everything. So he got on there and this

477
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Speaker 2: was like early people was just putting like cat videos

478
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Speaker 2: and stuff.

479
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Speaker 7: This was FaceTime. You had to have a college on

480
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Speaker 7: Facebook the same time.

481
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Speaker 4: College I need to get on.

482
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Speaker 2: So I told him, I said, hey, see if you

483
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Speaker 2: can get it up there, and of course he got

484
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Speaker 2: one of the most common names in the world, Eric

485
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Speaker 2: Thomas or Eric Thomas was actually taking So I was like, Man,

486
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Speaker 2: I was sitting there. I was like, yo, et Et Motivator,

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Speaker 2: ET Speaker, e T. And then he had just did

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Speaker 2: a sermon I remember the day before he did a

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Speaker 2: few days before he did t I you can.

490
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Speaker 4: Have whatever you like.

491
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Speaker 2: But he remixed it for like if you have Christ,

492
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Speaker 2: you can have whatever you like, and was like, yo,

493
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Speaker 2: my man is like a hip hop preacher. So then

494
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Speaker 2: I sat there and I was like, yo, Carl, check

495
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Speaker 2: the availability of Et the hip Hop Preacher. So he

496
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Speaker 2: was like, yeah, it's available, and so I was like bet.

497
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Speaker 2: And so from that moment on, I was like, Yo,

498
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Speaker 2: I'm out of here. Everything we do needs to be et.

499
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Speaker 2: Every timas Et the hip Hop Preacher. We only pushing him.

500
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Speaker 2: Everything we focused on from that moment forward was he.

501
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Speaker 2: And that's why I don't talk. Yeah, And it was

502
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Speaker 2: ignorance business ignorance. So me growing up, Martin Luther King

503
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Speaker 2: wasn't on no bit. I mean just think if he

504
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Speaker 2: was a businessman, what Martin Luther King would have made.

505
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Speaker 2: But he wasn't a businessman. You think about x X

506
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Speaker 2: wasn't no businessman. He didn't even owned his own crib.

507
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Speaker 2: So I'm growing up following them.

508
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Speaker 7: All their about is the community and the people like

509
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Speaker 7: they not own how much bread they gonna make. Martin

510
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Speaker 7: Uther King had a PhD at twenty six. He was

511
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Speaker 7: a faster getting a Tizon ofference. He didn't have no

512
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Speaker 7: business mind, Like I'm even thinking like, yo, if people

513
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Speaker 7: had had a business mind, where Martin would have been financially.

514
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Speaker 7: So for me, it hit me like, okay, see you

515
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Speaker 7: right in my ignorance, I want to help everybody, but

516
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Speaker 7: it's gonna it takes money to fight a war, bro

517
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Speaker 7: like flat out, it takes bread. Right, So I was like,

518
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Speaker 7: see you right. Let me just focus now on and

519
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Speaker 7: put my energy on growing me as a brand, meaning

520
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Speaker 7: let me go get this PhD. Now that was a

521
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Speaker 7: business move because I was like, yo, if we're gonna

522
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Speaker 7: make money, I can't go to our churches to make money,

523
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Speaker 7: Like that's what I was relying on before our churches,

524
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Speaker 7: our what is it like, you know, schools like elementary

525
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Speaker 7: middle I was like, bro, the bread is in corporate,

526
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Speaker 7: but like, you can't get corporate dollars.

527
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Speaker 4: On preaching what you're preaching.

528
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Speaker 7: So I literally went to college and got my master's

529
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Speaker 7: degree and then my PhD in Michigan State because I

530
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Speaker 7: was like, yo, I need to learn the rules.

531
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Speaker 4: I need to learn the language.

532
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Speaker 7: I need to learn the codes, like for real, Like

533
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Speaker 7: I can't compete with these boys if I don't. And

534
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Speaker 7: then I realized as I was studying, I was like,

535
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Speaker 7: be real, the reality is the blueprint. They like, if

536
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Speaker 7: you go to school and you start reading books, the

537
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Speaker 7: blueprint is there. So I was like, yo, I can

538
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Speaker 7: learn what they're doing and I can go in corporate

539
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Speaker 7: and do this.

540
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Speaker 3: And the advantage that I got is I got sold.

541
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Speaker 7: Like flat out, like you can't get you can't study this,

542
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Speaker 7: you can't go to school and learn this like this

543
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,600
Speaker 7: passion I got it ain't no academy and it ain't

544
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Speaker 7: nobody that's gonna be able to compete with me because

545
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Speaker 7: I'll know the business side. But I also got that

546
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Speaker 7: spirit of king in me. I got that spirit of

547
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Speaker 7: Mouthcolm in me.

548
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Speaker 3: I got that.

549
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Speaker 7: Spirit of guard v in me, and they ain't got that,

550
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Speaker 7: so they're not gonna be able to compete. So see

551
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Speaker 7: was the one that came and was like, E, all

552
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Speaker 7: of that spiritual stuff is good, that character development stuff

553
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Speaker 7: is good. But if we're gonna own our own, if

554
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Speaker 7: we're gonna be able to decide what we're doing when

555
00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,320
Speaker 7: we're doing, don't nobody own us. We gotta go business.

556
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Speaker 7: So let me just straight. I thought him in the

557
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Speaker 7: beginning because I didn't understand them. I wanted them to

558
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Speaker 7: still talk like.

559
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Speaker 2: He wanted to be rocking side by side, cause that's

560
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Speaker 2: all that's what I knew going to an HBCU like

561
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Speaker 2: it wasn't just a speaker, it was we was we

562
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Speaker 2: on the road, were traveling, we go on the restaurants,

563
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Speaker 2: were eating, and so I'm like, yof C become business,

564
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Speaker 2: that's gonna separate us.

565
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Speaker 7: It is what it is, bro, you start doing business.

566
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Speaker 7: I mean he gonna have to go to these meeting.

567
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Speaker 7: I'm gonna have to go speak on my own. And

568
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Speaker 7: quiet has kept since he became a businessman.

569
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Speaker 3: You left Win two thousand and nine.

570
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Speaker 7: Brouh it's twenty twenty two. We ain't been in the

571
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Speaker 7: same city since we made this move. So it was

572
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Speaker 7: like I lost and not we like fam but I

573
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Speaker 7: lost that time and that I lost that to business.

574
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Speaker 7: So in the beginning, I was like, yo, Brown, No,

575
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Speaker 7: I rather for us just to do us then change

576
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Speaker 7: the world, like I really like, let's.

577
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Speaker 3: Just brou we was.

578
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Speaker 7: We weren't cut Like we was walking to the grocery

579
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Speaker 7: store every day by lunch meat, coming back making sandwiches.

580
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Speaker 7: We was going to church together on the weekend, you

581
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Speaker 7: know what I'm saying, Like I was at his parents'

582
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Speaker 7: crib eating on Sunday, like it was a brotherhood. And

583
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Speaker 7: so for me it was like, bro, I don't know,

584
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Speaker 7: like I brother keep this then changed.

585
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Speaker 2: The world funny with shall you asked what was my title?

586
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,920
Speaker 2: And I said President And I always laughed tongue in cheek.

587
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Speaker 2: But we had went somewhere, we did a big conference

588
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Speaker 2: or something, and he was like, yo, I got He

589
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Speaker 2: invited everybody to his hotel rooms at the Embassy suites, right,

590
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Speaker 2: and he had like the big suite and the Embassy suites,

591
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Speaker 2: and I remember I was like, yo, what is he doing?

592
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Speaker 2: He was like he was like, yeah, just be down there,

593
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 2: like I gotta you know what I'm saying, tell you something.

594
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Speaker 2: I was like, all right, bet So I came down there.

595
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Speaker 2: It was in the little front room of the embassy suites.

596
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Speaker 2: I sat down and he was like, man, it was

597
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Speaker 2: like a bunch of people in there, some of his

598
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:36,480
Speaker 2: homies from back in the day and stuff. And he

599
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Speaker 2: was like, man, just want to let you know, Bruh,

600
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Speaker 2: like I'm naming you the president today.

601
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Speaker 3: And I was like, the president of what. Bro.

602
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Speaker 9: We ain't even had no coming, We had no llccene,

603
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Speaker 9: we ain't had nothing.

604
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Speaker 3: He was just like this idea y'all was bro.

605
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Speaker 9: But look, you know, I'm young. I'm young, right, I don't.

606
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Speaker 3: Know no better.

607
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Speaker 2: He gave me an old breakthorcycle shirt. I was like,

608
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Speaker 2: am I supposed to put it?

609
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Speaker 4: Like?

610
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Speaker 2: I didn't even know? But to his point, you know,

611
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,119
Speaker 2: he wanted us to roll like that forever. But what

612
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Speaker 2: I understood, Bruh is one like I was like, Okay,

613
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Speaker 2: I start looking at going I'm seeing people that he

614
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Speaker 2: is better than who making Bruh. I just I wouldn't

615
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 2: looked up, Okay, Tony Robbins network, what I'm like, no,

616
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Speaker 2: I'm looking up these other speakers. I'm like, yo, he

617
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 2: is better than them. And then once I understood, oh,

618
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 2: nobody cares. If nobody cares, you know what I'm saying,

619
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Speaker 2: Like people always ask me, like why I'm so big

620
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,600
Speaker 2: on branding and Nikki we talk about it all the time.

621
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Speaker 2: Listen nobody if your brand is sweet, nobody care.

622
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Speaker 3: Like I love it.

623
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 2: People were like, oh, Rihanna can't sing. Okay, Rihanna can't

624
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:41,320
Speaker 2: sing as good as cool. It's probably I'm not no joke.

625
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,719
Speaker 2: We in Atlanta, it's probably a million young ladies who

626
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Speaker 2: can out sing Rihanna And I don't even know if

627
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,680
Speaker 2: she knew a whole lot of dancing. Her brand though,

628
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Speaker 2: like that's that's what makes her real. I love Rihanna,

629
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:53,439
Speaker 2: but it's her brand that makes her her and people

630
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Speaker 2: care about her. So I was like, Yo, talent alone

631
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Speaker 2: ain't gonna do it. He so we as sweet as

632
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Speaker 2: we are, we're gonna be talking to elementary school kids

633
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Speaker 2: and middle school kids for the rest of our lives,

634
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 2: which that's still important and we still do, but we're

635
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:05,919
Speaker 2: gonna do that for the rest of our lives and

636
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 2: be broken. I start looking at all of these people

637
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:09,119
Speaker 2: who was making money, and I was like, I'm not

638
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 2: doing that.

639
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 3: We're not doing the we Black so were good.

640
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 2: With just making fifty sixty thousand at a time, and

641
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,159
Speaker 2: so he was like, Yo, we quitting our jobs and

642
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 2: we're getting after this thing.

643
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 3: So how does this scale?

644
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Speaker 8: Everyone has an opinion when it comes to the foods

645
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 8: we eat. This food's good for you, this one's bad

646
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 8: for you, this diet works best. But who actually has

647
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 8: the right answer. You don't need rules to lose weight,

648
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 8: You just need proper information to build smarter, more sustainable habits.

649
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Speaker 8: NEOM is here to change the way we view food

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 2: It's funny because he mixed tapes, he can say what

676
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Speaker 2: he wants.

677
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Speaker 3: He created it.

678
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so yeah, No, I'm brilliant. I don't like

679
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Speaker 2: the brag on a lot of stuff, but brill I've

680
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Speaker 2: been in that love I was the first one doing

681
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Speaker 2: that show.

682
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly that. Hey that was me, y'all go back, Hey,

683
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Speaker 3: that was.

684
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Speaker 2: Me, and I came up with it because well, first

685
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 2: of all, I don't want to skip ahead. But in

686
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 2: two thousand and nine, when I got my masters degree,

687
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 2: I ended up being his graduate assistant. And then I

688
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 2: got my master's degree, and he was like, yo, we quitn't.

689
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 2: And I was like, where are we going? He was like,

690
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 2: it don't matter. It's like we can't. Yeah, we can't write.

691
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 2: And at that time, again you got to think two

692
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 2: thousand and nine, you two ain't booming like it is now,

693
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 2: so you know what I'm saying. So he was like, yo,

694
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 2: we quitn't. And then so we ended up leaving our

695
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 2: jobs at Michigan State. We put in our two week

696
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 2: notice and we left. My wife got a job offer

697
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 2: with General Electric. So he mentioned why I had to leave.

698
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 2: I ain't had no money, and so my wife I

699
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 2: told I. I was like, look, my wife got a

700
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 2: corporate position. She making decent bread. I don't got to

701
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 2: do nothing. She gonna hold us down while we figured

702
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 2: this thing out. But bro, as much as I love you,

703
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 2: I'm going with my wife. Do you know what I'm saying? Like,

704
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go on the road. So I went on

705
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 2: the road and.

706
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 7: She would have stayed had he convinced that we need

707
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 7: to stay. But he was like, I got to take

708
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 7: care of the business, so I'm willing to. And y'all

709
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 7: got to understand this because he not a two man like.

710
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 3: He ain't no two man like.

711
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 4: He would have got drafted one in his class.

712
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 8: That's the part I'm thinking when I'm hearing it, I'm like,

713
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 8: what point does ego creep.

714
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 3: In or does it not?

715
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 2: You know what's so funny though, And I promise you

716
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:20,400
Speaker 2: I mean in disrespect to either of these brothers. All

717
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 2: love because we learned so much. But early on E

718
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 2: and I used to religiously study Jay and Dan and

719
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 2: I was like, yo, they explained. I used to tell E, Yo,

720
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 2: explain to me how when you have nothing, y'all is

721
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 2: best of friends, right, like inseparable, And all of a

722
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 2: sudden you got fifteen multi million dollar companies booming, and

723
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 2: y'all don't talk anymore. Like again, no, I don't mean

724
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 2: to be in their business. I don't know what happened.

725
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 2: Like some people are like, oh, Dann wanted to be

726
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 2: in the videos. Maybe he had the right to be

727
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,240
Speaker 2: in the videos. I don't know what happened. But I

728
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 2: do know that once success came in, they didn't talk anymore.

729
00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 2: And I'm like, yo, it seemed like it should be

730
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 2: the other way around. I was like, yo, I'm irritated

731
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 2: when I'm broke, like money ain't coming in, I'm stressed.

732
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 3: I'm ready put my eye.

733
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 2: But like we studied them too, literally religious and and

734
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 2: we literally would go back and forth like, yo, why

735
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 2: is it that they don't talk anymore? Like they built

736
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 2: everything they could imagine as partners and then they fell out.

737
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 2: And so with me, the ego thing is I tell

738
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 2: people all the time, I love it people come up

739
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 2: to me like you're such a good human. Your ET's right,

740
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 2: hen man, I said, don't get it twisted. I'm balling too,

741
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, Like, no, it was the

742
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 2: best decision for us. Does that make sense? Like I'm

743
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 2: not that great a human where I'm just gonna sit

744
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 2: back and be gandhi like I'm at the career broke

745
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 2: Like no, no, no, I got nice stuff too. You

746
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 2: see what I'm saying. That was the best decision for us.

747
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 2: So the ego part was this is my brother for real.

748
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 2: And then the other thing I tell people all the time, people,

749
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 2: I need to find my CJ. Like again, like you're

750
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 2: trying to find the right hand and I say all

751
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 2: the time. First of all, you're not et so they'll

752
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 2: go your first problems. You know what I'm saying, Like,

753
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:52,920
Speaker 2: don't just act like I hear. I wasn't doing this

754
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 2: for nobody else, but understand something. I looked at it

755
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 2: and argue you two quick things. One, I understood that

756
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 2: he is of a different calibre as a human and

757
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 2: I want y'all to know that. And that's why he

758
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 2: asked me to come on this podcast with him. And

759
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 2: I was like, I agree to it because y'all need

760
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 2: to know the truth. We're not dealing with a regular dude.

761
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 2: Like I hope y'all know that, and I'll give So

762
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 2: this is when the ego died. We in Harlem, and

763
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 2: we at this church and this is pre Et, the

764
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 2: hip hop preacher. Nobody knows who he is. This is

765
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 2: the true story. This is the day. I was like,

766
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna be his right hand man forever. We

767
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 2: out in Harlem, shout out, Alex. You know how that Harlem.

768
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Whether or not, ain't from Harlem.

769
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 2: But New York, you know, is still a part of y'all.

770
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 2: New York part of y'all.

771
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 3: You know what.

772
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 2: But you know that in that New York energy, right

773
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 2: the sid I'll be honest, this might have been my

774
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 2: second time in New York in my life. So I'm

775
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 2: just fascinated, you know what I'm saying. I'm from Lanston, Michigan. Bro,

776
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 2: we don't have nothing like that, you know what I'm saying.

777
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 2: And so we out in Harlem, right, and we are

778
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 2: in this church and he's preaching that week. So we

779
00:32:58,120 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 2: used to do a whole week. It'd be like fit

780
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 2: teen hundred dollars for the whole week. And we out

781
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 2: there and you know, the food trucks is booming, the

782
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,239
Speaker 2: subway booming, people hopping off the train and all of that.

783
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 2: And we're sitting on the stoop of the church and

784
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 2: just just talking nothing crazy. All of a sudden, this dude,

785
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 2: I kid, y'all, not about six five muscle dude, dreads

786
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 2: gold see the whole nine. My man is coming down

787
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 2: the sidewalk, and my man's on the phone and he

788
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 2: was cussing somebody out, like.

789
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 9: You mother, I'll kill you. I'm talking about like causing

790
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 9: the scene.

791
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 2: It was like it was like New York style brou

792
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 2: o haul right right right right, Hey, we we on

793
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 2: linux ad so me Carl and now Carl about this

794
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 2: big and I'm we on the stoop and I look

795
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 2: and I'm like, okay, my man, he's coming this way

796
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 2: so he might be like at the wall and me

797
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 2: and Carl backed up about four five steps. He's standing

798
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 2: in the middle of the sidewalk like this and turns

799
00:33:56,160 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 2: and face towards my men, and I said, yeah, yeah,

800
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 2: my man is literally like the smith is cracking under

801
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 2: his feet. And he was like he turned and looked

802
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 2: and was like and I'm like, yo, I'm tapping Carl

803
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 2: like dog, do you see this? My man don't even

804
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 2: see E yet. So he walking up and he gets

805
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:18,919
Speaker 2: probably two feet from Eve, and now he started looked

806
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 2: up and like notice and of course he got the

807
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 2: moug like ah, I'll kill you. So I'm like in

808
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 2: my head, I'm like I'm gonna have to just jump

809
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 2: off this joint and just beare hub my man something

810
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:32,399
Speaker 2: like he about to kill E and E. My man

811
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 2: had his phone like this and looked at Ian was

812
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 2: about to like start cutting out, and he grabbed his

813
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 2: wrist and was like, yo, put the phone down, bro.

814
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,760
Speaker 2: Everybody I'm talking about it was like a movie. Everybody

815
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 2: just stopped and looked and he was like my man

816
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 2: was like what and he grabbed his other wrist, both

817
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,360
Speaker 2: of them, and said, put the phone down. And my

818
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 2: man put his arms down to his side like this,

819
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 2: and he grabbed my man and start praying, just out

820
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 2: of nowhere, just start praying.

821
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:01,279
Speaker 3: My man fell to his knees, snap tears.

822
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 9: Coming out of his eyes.

823
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 3: He stood up.

824
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,920
Speaker 2: He hugged him for about thirty seconds and was like,

825
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:09,320
Speaker 2: go in peace, and my man walked off just boo who.

826
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 4: Crying, and everybody out there was like.

827
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:12,839
Speaker 3: Yo.

828
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:15,839
Speaker 2: He was like yo, y'all ready. I was like, hold on, man,

829
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 2: you're not gonna have like this just happened at that.

830
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 2: But you see what I'm saying, like, bro, ain't no ego, Bro,

831
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 2: Like I told you long ago, if this was about speaking,

832
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 2: I had been speaking since I was a kid, I

833
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 2: would have just been like, you know, when it's time

834
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 2: to break off, like you know, we had our run

835
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 2: and it's like okay, Jordan go that way, Pippen, go

836
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 2: that way. Everybody do their own thing. But I was like,

837
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 2: this has nothing. I met somebody who I was like, Yo,

838
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 2: this man literally the world needs to know who he is,

839
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 2: like not me, you know what I'm saying, the world

840
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 2: really needs to know we And then, Bro, I can't

841
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 2: tell you since then people chemote therapy, you know what

842
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 2: I'm saying. We were in Australia, Bro, this lady came.

843
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:51,759
Speaker 2: We had an event in Australia and you know, we

844
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 2: got a demo and it's not an eighty year old

845
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:54,439
Speaker 2: white lady.

846
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,360
Speaker 3: And she came to the VIP and she was like.

847
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 3: I was like, I.

848
00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 4: Looked at her.

849
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 2: You know, y'all have events when you see people who

850
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 2: look a little like, you know, sticking out a little bit.

851
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 3: I went up to her.

852
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:04,239
Speaker 4: I was like, how you doing.

853
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 2: She was like, yeah, I'm here for the VIP event

854
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 2: and I was like, how do you know T And

855
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 2: she was like, well, my students play rugby and I

856
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 2: was in I had cancer and I was going through

857
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 2: chemotherapy and every day they would send me one of

858
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,800
Speaker 2: his videos. And she was like, and I beat cancer

859
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:20,879
Speaker 2: because of him. And she was like I've never seen

860
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 2: anything but the videos they sent And so Bru when

861
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 2: you're talking about DA we're not talking about music, We're

862
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 2: not talking about entertainment. We're talking about literally matters of

863
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 2: the heart and him changing this world. I was like, bro,

864
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,319
Speaker 2: I don't need no shine, I don't need no eating.

865
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,719
Speaker 2: I do need some paper. I do need that because

866
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 2: my wife ain't trying to hear Eat changing the world.

867
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 3: So I do need some paper. So I get to

868
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 3: the bread with you.

869
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 2: But bruh, I will do whatever I can to make

870
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 2: sure the world knows who he is.

871
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 3: But let's get back to this mactape situation. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

872
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:50,359
Speaker 3: what's the deal with that? Yeah?

873
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 2: So you know, it's crazy because a lot of people

874
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 2: start hitting me up like yo, I love et stuff

875
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 2: like I want to I listen to it when I

876
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 2: work out. And I was like, man, I listen to

877
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 2: all the time too. But I'm like I would always

878
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 2: take like I would have make a playlist and have

879
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 2: like E and then like fifty and then E and

880
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 2: then hole and then and then And I was like, man,

881
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 2: I was like, what if I kind of blended those

882
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 2: two worlds together with the music and the motivation, you know,

883
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 2: at the same time. And this was like these kids

884
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 2: today don't know nothing about it. We actually had it

885
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:23,840
Speaker 2: good back in the day. I don't know if y'all remember,

886
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,359
Speaker 2: but like you could just go on and make your

887
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,319
Speaker 2: stuff like and put it out and it didn't have

888
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 2: like I had whole I might have had dddy on

889
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 2: there like everything you can say, yeah one no sample,

890
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 2: clean one, no nothing. You could just I had little

891
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,839
Speaker 2: Wayne on there like Kobe like whatever. And it was

892
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 2: like the wild wild West back then. And so I

893
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,840
Speaker 2: put it out and bro like what we crashed the

894
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 2: site and like, and I talked to him. I was like,

895
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a lot of downloads whatever. I think

896
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 2: we had like forty thousand downloads like in like an

897
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 2: hour long span. And it was like I could see

898
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 2: the countries, like we were looking at the analytics and

899
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 2: I could see like different countries, And that was the

900
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 2: moment I knew. I was like, oh, this thing is

901
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 2: like getting.

902
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 7: Bigre But from a business standpoint, that's when it shifted.

903
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 7: So you could literally look at our algorithm and see

904
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 7: that now our biggest followers were white males between the

905
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:18,240
Speaker 7: age of twenty two analytics yeah, and they were direct sales.

906
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 7: So now that's who listening to it. So they just

907
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 7: little Ray Ray you know, on the block and listened

908
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:30,880
Speaker 7: to it. Now dudes and like banking dudes selling solar

909
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 7: like they coming in in the morning and they listening

910
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:36,799
Speaker 7: to it and ready to run through a wall. So

911
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 7: now all of a sudden, the CEOs are starting to call.

912
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying, like, Yo, can we get

913
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 7: you to come and speak? They listen to you. We

914
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 7: want you to.

915
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 3: Come live now analytics.

916
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:50,439
Speaker 7: You know, because a lot of people like you speak

917
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 7: for Alabama football, you speak for Michigan football, you know,

918
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 7: all the LSU all, but all the big program. It

919
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 7: wasn't the coaches. It was a strength and conditioning coaches

920
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:02,759
Speaker 7: that was saying that. And now they, ah, they like,

921
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 7: we gotta get him in here because you feel what

922
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 7: I'm saying. So with that mixtape, it really created the

923
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 7: pathway for the bread, for the money for corporate. And

924
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 7: then once I started doing corporate, you know what it is,

925
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 7: I was blessed in Detroit. Dan Gilbel was taking over Detroit.

926
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 7: So when he talked about when everybody like, hey, you

927
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 7: know who who the people buying up all? I knew

928
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 7: him personally. So now Dann like yo, e, you know,

929
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 7: he had meetings, Warren Buffett, et cetera. I'm in those

930
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 7: meetings now. So now the business dude is, I'm like, okay, Like,

931
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 7: i ain't never been in a room with a billionaire before.

932
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:39,399
Speaker 7: I'm listening to billionaire talk. He like, yup, we about

933
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 7: to buy Detroit up. I'm like, what you about to

934
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 7: buy it? Like he was like, yup vulture. I'm like,

935
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 7: what does that mean. It's like, yup, once it's dead boom,

936
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:47,919
Speaker 7: so the best time to buy?

937
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:50,320
Speaker 3: Like I said that, yeah, he was like yo.

938
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 7: It's like he like they was talking about how Detroit

939
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:54,799
Speaker 7: was the recession and they was gonna buy it up

940
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 7: and they bothered up.

941
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 3: So they buying.

942
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 7: They buying Scott Scrapers for five hundred grand. And I'm

943
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 7: wid them put kids in there with these great ideas.

944
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 7: So the kids paying for real estate like to be there,

945
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 7: and they giving them twenty percent or whatever they was

946
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 7: giving them for the idea and then for them investing.

947
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 3: So I'm in the room, I'm in the I'm in.

948
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 7: The elevator by myself with Dan Gilbert and Warren Buffett,

949
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 7: and then like, e I'm not gonna necessarily like cash

950
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,279
Speaker 7: you out, but I'm about to expose. My man gave

951
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 7: me an office right across from his office. So I'm like,

952
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 7: I'm at the I'm at the playoffs, Bro, me and

953
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:31,239
Speaker 7: my wife and kid. We right behind Lebron in the finals.

954
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 7: I'm everybody like you with Bron. I'm like, I don't

955
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 7: personally know Bron, but I'm in the back with Dan Gilbert.

956
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 7: It's just me and him, like were just sitting there.

957
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:41,800
Speaker 7: I'm like, what's up Chauncey? Me and Chock like different

958
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 7: player whatever. I'm in the back. He like, Eve, what

959
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 7: you think about this? What you think about that? So

960
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 7: I'm in the room with like, oh, this ain't about okay.

961
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 7: I got to Martin Now. God giving me the He

962
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 7: give me the billionaires. And so I'm watching the games

963
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:56,360
Speaker 7: and I'm seeing the dudes at the games.

964
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 3: Who was in the room.

965
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 7: So now when I go into Louis Gucci find the product,

966
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:03,840
Speaker 7: I know the dude that own them all Earns.

967
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 8: What's going on as you gear the fall? You need

968
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990
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Speaker 4: So it's a whole different.

991
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 7: My mindset changed, not like WHOA at first, I'm not

992
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 7: gonna lie I was geeked to be in the room

993
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 7: because just to be in the room. But then God

994
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:23,880
Speaker 7: So was like, yo, you think I brought you in

995
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:25,880
Speaker 7: this room with billionaires not to be one.

996
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 4: So see was doing this thing.

997
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 7: But then I looked up with C was like, all right, see,

998
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 7: I see what you've been on because I'm gonna be real.

999
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 7: I wasn't on that at first, so he was by himself,

1000
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 7: if you will doing the work. Then I found out

1001
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 7: and I was like, yo, see let's get this bread bro.

1002
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 7: Why because now I'm taking twenty kids to the super

1003
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 7: Bowl with me. Now I'm I'm flying them to putting

1004
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 7: them on a limo, flying them to San Diego, putting

1005
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:53,440
Speaker 7: them at the harbor, taking them to the restaurant, then

1006
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 7: busting them to LA for the super Bowl Expaen, then

1007
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 7: bringing them back, putting them in the air and b

1008
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 7: then taking them back to the super Bowl. See three

1009
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 7: hollering at they geek. Then I'm taking them to the

1010
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:04,240
Speaker 7: super Bowl. So I just spend one hundred and twenty

1011
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 7: grand to take the kids. So I'm like, I gotta

1012
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 7: be a billionaire. I'm putting kids through college, I'm buying computers,

1013
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 7: I'm sending kids study abroad. So now when I'm hooking

1014
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,919
Speaker 7: up with c then they go to mal then it's

1015
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,360
Speaker 7: with Alex. Alex like you need to do I'm like,

1016
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:19,799
Speaker 7: all right, y'all telling me what to do cause I

1017
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 7: need to get to this bill because honest moment, honest moment,

1018
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 7: I was like, yo, Bill Gates doing more for the

1019
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:30,360
Speaker 7: hood than I'm doing. He got a Millennial scholarship, So

1020
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:32,720
Speaker 7: any kid from the hood you want to go to college,

1021
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:35,800
Speaker 7: He's paying for it. His wife went through Detroit Public

1022
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 7: schools and then got that scholarship. So I'm like, yo, hot,

1023
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 7: Bill Gates, blessing my people. He ain't never been on

1024
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 7: the east side of the Trait. He ain't never been

1025
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 7: on the West side of Chicago, Like he ain't been

1026
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 7: on the block That's where I'm from. I was like,

1027
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,760
Speaker 7: you gotta be a billionaire because these dudes get to decide.

1028
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 7: Cool that he doing it, But no matter, if you

1029
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 7: had a bill, what you could do for your people

1030
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:57,720
Speaker 7: to put your people on. So it went from Martin

1031
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 7: Luther King to Martin Luther Gates.

1032
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 4: It was like, okay, we got to yeah we merged them, Yeah,

1033
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:08,319
Speaker 4: we merged it.

1034
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 3: So Dan Gilbert, you estab that relationship. Is that the

1035
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 3: first big corporate relationship you had?

1036
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,400
Speaker 8: Because obviously hip hop preachers, so obviously this is a

1037
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 8: hip hop side to get here with the next sing

1038
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:19,800
Speaker 8: that blew up? But who was like the first corporate

1039
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:20,959
Speaker 8: relationship that was like.

1040
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 7: Oh wait, Dan Gilbert was the first one who gave

1041
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:30,240
Speaker 7: me game free, Like, Yo, you come in this office,

1042
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 7: you be wherever you want to be, wherever you want

1043
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 7: to be. I don't got to be here. Everybody knew

1044
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 7: who I was. I walk in that joint, I walk around.

1045
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:38,280
Speaker 7: I can come to any meeting.

1046
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:38,880
Speaker 4: Brouh.

1047
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, stuff that we you know, imparted into our company.

1048
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 2: He got what he called, I mean.

1049
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 7: Nineteen is but it's like ten commandments. It's like the

1050
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,240
Speaker 7: Bible's ten commandments. He got his nineteen commandments.

1051
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:53,280
Speaker 2: This is what every But it was weird though, because

1052
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 2: like we would go to an office in Detroit and

1053
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:56,760
Speaker 2: then you go to the office in Arizona and everybody

1054
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 2: do the exact same thing.

1055
00:44:57,960 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 4: Then remember any of them?

1056
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:03,879
Speaker 7: Yeah, all of them them? All my boys. Oh yeah,

1057
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 7: you hear me saying that speed is kid. Execution is worship.

1058
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, a bunch of worship. Yeah, execution that

1059
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 7: was his thing. He said, ah, man, what was the

1060
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:17,759
Speaker 7: first part. The first part was innovation is rewarded, but

1061
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:20,319
Speaker 7: execution is worship. So y'all can come up with these

1062
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 7: ideas all day, Okay, cool, But the people that can

1063
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 7: actually get those ideas and make those things accomplish them.

1064
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 4: He like, that's a different level.

1065
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:30,440
Speaker 7: I've watched my man fire somebody. If you ain't called

1066
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:32,919
Speaker 7: back in twenty four you got fired. He was like, Yo,

1067
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 7: what he did that I've never seen before is he

1068
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 7: did a conference before he hired you to see if

1069
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 7: you believed in what he believed in, and told you

1070
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:43,279
Speaker 7: what he believed in, and then once he hired you,

1071
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:45,400
Speaker 7: if you didn't do it, he fired you immediately. I

1072
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 7: never seen that before. Like most people hire you didn't

1073
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 7: tell you what they're about. He told you what he

1074
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:52,120
Speaker 7: was about first, and then he hired you. You put me,

1075
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 7: I had to sign a contract. Now, this is why

1076
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:55,480
Speaker 7: I'm tripping, y'all. Come, you know how it is. I

1077
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 7: first got with them. I'm from I'm Blue collarm. My

1078
00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 7: people literally worked for Ford n GM. You feel me.

1079
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 7: I'm in there with these cats right blew my mind

1080
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,399
Speaker 7: were talking about what was it StockX that was called

1081
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 7: what is it called? I'm in the room like they

1082
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:12,040
Speaker 7: asking me. I'm in the room before it's an idea

1083
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:15,880
Speaker 7: we going. I'm like, okay, look at I'm like. He

1084
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:17,320
Speaker 7: was like, Eve, what you think. I'm like, bro, I

1085
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 7: ain't gonna lie to you.

1086
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 4: Bro. We standing in the line. I don't know if

1087
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 4: nobody gonna be going online getting a pair of shoes.

1088
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 3: They can't even see.

1089
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:24,800
Speaker 4: I mean, this is the conversation.

1090
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 7: We haven't his son putting like he letting his son

1091
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:30,319
Speaker 7: get involved, his son doing stuff like Bruh, it was

1092
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 7: an idea. There's a white boards that they have. I

1093
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 7: watched it the first time it got put on the boards.

1094
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:39,400
Speaker 7: I'm sitting in the room, they asking me what I think,

1095
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 7: and I'm like, bro, I don't even think that's gonna work.

1096
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:43,759
Speaker 7: Bru quiet has kept so I can go back to

1097
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 7: none of the meetings.

1098
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:51,440
Speaker 3: Years later, I'm like, what in the world. Bruh, bruh.

1099
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:53,799
Speaker 7: You know? So for me, I'm not mad, but I

1100
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 7: got exposed and then from there I was.

1101
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 4: Like, yo, you can't play with these ideas. You can't play.

1102
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 4: But Bka, I got a out to Beka.

1103
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 3: My boy.

1104
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 4: He was over a company called verb BKA. Was the

1105
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 4: first one who flew me first class. He was the

1106
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:08,880
Speaker 4: first one to give me a retainer.

1107
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:10,880
Speaker 7: He was the first one to put me in my

1108
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:14,319
Speaker 7: family in the hotel where it's the big suite. I'm

1109
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 7: over here, my kids over there. He was the first

1110
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 7: one to stroke a check. You know what I'm saying.

1111
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:20,800
Speaker 7: He was the first one to show me how valuable

1112
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:23,719
Speaker 7: I was in network marketing when I didn't even really

1113
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 7: know who I was. He used me to attract kids

1114
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:28,840
Speaker 7: to come to his events. So he was the first

1115
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:31,280
Speaker 7: one to say I'm not only gonna say you sweet,

1116
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 7: I'm gonna back it up economically.

1117
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 4: He was the first one.

1118
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:35,880
Speaker 7: I was like, Yo, I'll give y'all two mel to

1119
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 7: do some stuff with y'all for Michigan State and the

1120
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:40,839
Speaker 7: students a scholarship in your name. But See was like,

1121
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 7: I E, I don't know if we want to See

1122
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 7: had the presence of mine in. I don't know if

1123
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:46,960
Speaker 7: we want to connect ourselves and nobody else. We want

1124
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 7: to stay independent because you're so rare that if we

1125
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:50,879
Speaker 7: start clings.

1126
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 4: At the time I turned down two mil.

1127
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 2: I think my tax returns I made like twenty eight

1128
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:57,959
Speaker 2: thirty thousand that year, and they came with two meal

1129
00:47:58,160 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 2: like cash.

1130
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 3: And I was like, nah, to be partner.

1131
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 2: Just understood the power of independence even back then, and

1132
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 2: and by that time, to be honest with you, I

1133
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 2: saw the trajectory, you know what I'm saying, Like, I

1134
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:09,399
Speaker 2: did see where this thing was going.

1135
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:11,879
Speaker 6: So I saw a video on Instagram a while back

1136
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 6: then when viral where you was talking about you're the

1137
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 6: number one motivation speaker in the world. You can't be

1138
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 6: treated differently just because you're black, as far as your

1139
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:21,799
Speaker 6: price and things of that nature. So talk about that,

1140
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:26,960
Speaker 6: because I feel like the levels to like racism, there's

1141
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 6: levels to racism and the obvious level of you know

1142
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 6: what we see on the ground, but then there's different

1143
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:36,960
Speaker 6: levels where it's like it's not so obvious, right, like yeah,

1144
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:40,759
Speaker 6: pay difference or opportunity difference, or like just getting in

1145
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,880
Speaker 6: there hitting the ceiling with your counterparts.

1146
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 3: They don't have a ceiling.

1147
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:47,480
Speaker 6: And it's hard to really complain about that cause like

1148
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:49,839
Speaker 6: you're still making a lot of money, but it's not

1149
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:50,480
Speaker 6: you know what I'm.

1150
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 7: Saying, that's the part that we gotta deal with, cause

1151
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 7: that's why I wasn't asking for more. I kind of

1152
00:48:56,560 --> 00:49:00,840
Speaker 7: felt like, yo, E bruh, you making thirty thous a pop.

1153
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:03,399
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Like, come on, your mom,

1154
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:05,759
Speaker 4: ain't never see that kind of bread. You got five kids,

1155
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:06,799
Speaker 4: you got a hundred fifty grand?

1156
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:08,280
Speaker 3: Bruh, what you're tripping about?

1157
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:11,320
Speaker 7: Then I got up to fifty, I was like fifty

1158
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 7: a pop, like bro, and you know the volume of

1159
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:16,400
Speaker 7: work I'm doing. So I kind of felt like, E,

1160
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,319
Speaker 7: keep your mouth shut, like this hain't where you want

1161
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:22,440
Speaker 7: to just be tripping about because you're making good money whatever.

1162
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 7: And I did get to that point where I was like, yo,

1163
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:30,760
Speaker 7: equality is equality, and E every time you go somewhere,

1164
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 7: people are not only talking about how good the message was,

1165
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:37,320
Speaker 7: but how you care and like you ain't just about

1166
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 7: the bread.

1167
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:40,440
Speaker 4: And it was just like, I'm gonna be real. I

1168
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 4: don't know who she was.

1169
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 7: It was some chick that called us during the recession,

1170
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,880
Speaker 7: and she's like, Yo, I'm not trying to be funny,

1171
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:50,360
Speaker 7: but I need to tell you I'm in this industry,

1172
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:53,520
Speaker 7: like I booked speakers, like I do this. I've been

1173
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:56,760
Speaker 7: with a bureau forever. You the highest ranking in charging

1174
00:49:56,800 --> 00:49:59,600
Speaker 7: the least. She's like Yo, you need to stand up

1175
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 7: for yourself.

1176
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:00,719
Speaker 3: Twitch she charged in.

1177
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:03,320
Speaker 10: Like fifty at the time or speech, and speech was

1178
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:07,719
Speaker 10: like twenty twenty four, yeah, twenty twenty one, twenty twenty one,

1179
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 10: twenty twenty twenty one, right, right, twenty twenty one, B right, yeah,

1180
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:12,920
Speaker 10: B does all my stuff.

1181
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:16,400
Speaker 7: And so recently we just after the pandemic. It's no

1182
00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:18,560
Speaker 7: such nigga after But y'all know what I mean. You

1183
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:21,719
Speaker 7: know what I'm saying. Yeah, you never hear right when

1184
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 7: everybody else Then when everybody come up to Atlanta, you

1185
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 7: fee what I'm saying. I said seventy five and then B,

1186
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:31,320
Speaker 7: who's here, does all my whatever? And B was like, yo, e,

1187
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 7: I just got somebody to like do eighty something. And

1188
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:36,120
Speaker 7: I was like, B, let's go off one hundred plus,

1189
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:37,879
Speaker 7: you know. And here's the crazy part. When we said

1190
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:40,440
Speaker 7: seventy five, when I might tripping. So a part of

1191
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:43,719
Speaker 7: me not taking it to the next level was this

1192
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 7: invisible ceiling that I placed on myself that like, yo,

1193
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:49,960
Speaker 7: you're black, chill, like your mama never made this your

1194
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 7: Brandma never made Martin never made this dog one that

1195
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:55,680
Speaker 7: you tripping Martin Luther kid. Imagine that Martin was here

1196
00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:58,279
Speaker 7: right now with the rod bone and the Swiss boy,

1197
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:00,960
Speaker 7: he would have gatoray, I'm saying he would have so

1198
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:03,279
Speaker 7: many adorsements. I'm gonna being real. You're talking about going

1199
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:07,800
Speaker 7: viral Martin Luther King's speech. Bruh if it was on Instagram, TikTok.

1200
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:10,240
Speaker 7: You fee what I'm saying, it's viral, You're not alive.

1201
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:12,440
Speaker 7: So so I'm thinking to myself, like, yo, Bro, he

1202
00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 7: probably barely made sixty thousand each chill like you. But

1203
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:17,880
Speaker 7: I had to get to a point where it was like,

1204
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:21,920
Speaker 7: stop thinking in your world economically and think in the

1205
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,759
Speaker 7: world of speaking. It don't matter that you're black. You

1206
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 7: were the best in the business. So what are the

1207
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:29,440
Speaker 7: best in the business charging? And that's what you have

1208
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:32,239
Speaker 7: to charge. So I told be, like, Yo, hundred one

1209
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:35,279
Speaker 7: hundred plus now court, then you gotta think Bro was

1210
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 7: in Dubai and they paid me one hundred and eighty bruh,

1211
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:40,640
Speaker 7: one hundred and eighty at one time, Like I can't complain,

1212
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:42,920
Speaker 7: I'm getting a hunt. Everybody ain't making that kind of

1213
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:45,440
Speaker 7: that's like flipping the house, you know what I'm saying.

1214
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:47,359
Speaker 4: I'm doing it in forty five minutes. I ain't got

1215
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 4: to put no wood.

1216
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 2: Down though, you understand something. He do that on the

1217
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,880
Speaker 2: corporate level to be able to go question he does.

1218
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:57,279
Speaker 2: He speaks more for freedom, he speaks no question. If

1219
00:51:57,320 --> 00:51:59,240
Speaker 2: you want to make sure people understand that how people

1220
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:00,880
Speaker 2: are in the is right now, like all right, you

1221
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:02,839
Speaker 2: blow out and charge out in eighty thousand. The kids

1222
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 2: in the hood can't hear no, no, no, I'm charging thousand,

1223
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:06,359
Speaker 2: so we could stay.

1224
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:07,719
Speaker 3: I stay in the hood, you know what I'm saying.

1225
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 7: And now I can really do more for the hoods

1226
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:11,600
Speaker 7: than I've ever done before. Now I could take the

1227
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 7: hood to.

1228
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:13,799
Speaker 3: The super Bowl. Now I can go in and get

1229
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 3: a kid.

1230
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:17,040
Speaker 2: Jay's literally twenty kids to the super no question, like

1231
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:20,239
Speaker 2: not to the super Bowl experience, like in the Super Bowl,

1232
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:21,960
Speaker 2: like don't give away super Bowl tickets. You know what

1233
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:24,280
Speaker 2: I'm saying. So I just want to make sure people understood.

1234
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna be real. Only twenty because only twenty

1235
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:29,879
Speaker 2: kids did what they was told to do. I went

1236
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:32,120
Speaker 2: to four schools and told them I take everybody who

1237
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:34,839
Speaker 2: can go. I ain't tripping if you can go, if

1238
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:35,480
Speaker 2: you do your.

1239
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:37,319
Speaker 7: Homework, had your mama come up here. We did a

1240
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 7: program in the day. Then we met their parents in

1241
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:42,279
Speaker 7: the afternoon and said, here's the qualifications they do this,

1242
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 7: they go to Super Bowl. So only twenty kids out

1243
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:47,160
Speaker 7: of the foest kids schools did it. I would have

1244
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 7: put up two hundred and fifty if I had to.

1245
00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:51,360
Speaker 7: But do you think I'm speaking one hundred and eighty.

1246
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:52,759
Speaker 7: I'm like, brother, that ain't nothing for me to go

1247
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:53,440
Speaker 7: back and bless them.

1248
00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 3: I want to go back to what you said.

1249
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 8: You said the number one goal is to make people

1250
00:52:56,640 --> 00:53:00,200
Speaker 8: kid right, and so what was the plan to make

1251
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:02,440
Speaker 8: people care right? Because he's doing stuff for the schools,

1252
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 8: you still need to have corporate Ye think.

1253
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 3: That's what you want to do.

1254
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 2: So so man, I saw, okay, let me just get

1255
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:13,279
Speaker 2: you all the game, right Like so, I said, he was.

1256
00:53:13,239 --> 00:53:14,359
Speaker 4: Only gonna get half of the game.

1257
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I was about to give you half, but

1258
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 2: let me go. I wanted to give you the full thing.

1259
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:22,720
Speaker 2: So I sat in the office right, looked up Brouh.

1260
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 3: Again.

1261
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 2: I'm not the smartest person in the world, but I

1262
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 2: know I know how to do my Google's right. Who's

1263
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:30,080
Speaker 2: the number one motivational speaking in the world. Tony Robbins

1264
00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 2: cool looked at his website. Looked at all this stuff,

1265
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:34,880
Speaker 2: I said, all right, cool, I know that he is

1266
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:38,320
Speaker 2: first of all, don't look nothing like that. Tony Rabbins

1267
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:42,040
Speaker 2: like six ten, like I loved short black dude. I'm like, okay,

1268
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:44,160
Speaker 2: we ain't got to look all right cool. We definitely

1269
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:46,319
Speaker 2: don't have the money to create this type of website.

1270
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:49,840
Speaker 2: But most people, when they hustle or they become an entrepreneur,

1271
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 2: they try to do what everybody else is doing. I

1272
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:54,719
Speaker 2: looked and said, okay, cool, this is all the things

1273
00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:56,840
Speaker 2: he's doing. I always my brain always goes to what

1274
00:53:56,920 --> 00:54:00,160
Speaker 2: is he not doing? So at that time, nobody he

1275
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 2: was putting consistent content on the internet in terms of motivation.

1276
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:06,799
Speaker 2: So I went and ordered all Tony Robbins stuff. Well,

1277
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 2: I ordered it online and it took like six It

1278
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 2: was like a box set DVD took like six weeks

1279
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:14,279
Speaker 2: to get to my door. And I'm like, Yo, that's

1280
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:16,239
Speaker 2: a long time to wait for some motivation. I might

1281
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:17,879
Speaker 2: have a test on Friday. You know what I'm saying.

1282
00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:19,920
Speaker 2: You're trying to get pumped up. You ain't got it,

1283
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:22,239
Speaker 2: So I said, yo. When we started the et the

1284
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:24,120
Speaker 2: hip hop Preacher, I said, bro we just gonna put

1285
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 2: content on here on a regular basis, and e we

1286
00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:28,880
Speaker 2: would always be like, it's crazy because we would always

1287
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Speaker 2: be geeked up to get back to the office on Monday.

1288
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:30,920
Speaker 3: Right.

1289
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 2: He had a wife and kid and so like the

1290
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:34,920
Speaker 2: weekends was like dead for us. So we would come

1291
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:37,360
Speaker 2: in on Monday and everybody at the office would be

1292
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:39,239
Speaker 2: like dead. I'm talking about no energy. I don't know

1293
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:40,920
Speaker 2: if y'all ever worked the corporate job, but it's like

1294
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:43,759
Speaker 2: people like barely speaking, they barely doing anything. We would

1295
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:46,520
Speaker 2: be in there like let's go, it's showtime. And so

1296
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:48,760
Speaker 2: he always used to be saying, thank God, it's Monday,

1297
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 2: and so I was like, all right, cool he doing

1298
00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 2: thank God is Monday, and then Friday the rest of

1299
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:56,560
Speaker 2: the world will be geeked up. And then he was like, yo,

1300
00:54:56,719 --> 00:54:59,360
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do some videos for people who like not

1301
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 2: fired up on Monday. And so we came out and

1302
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:03,839
Speaker 2: I think it was called like Magical Moments.

1303
00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 7: At first, or something like that magical Monday motivational moment.

1304
00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:09,719
Speaker 2: Right right, So he was just on camera, just waxing deep,

1305
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:11,920
Speaker 2: and then finally it came around to thank God his Monday,

1306
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:14,839
Speaker 2: and we started thank God is Monday, and he put

1307
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:15,760
Speaker 2: how many years.

1308
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:17,560
Speaker 3: Did we do it? Like seven to eight years?

1309
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:21,040
Speaker 2: Seven eight years straight? We put up a video every

1310
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:24,480
Speaker 2: single Monday. I'm talking about without failed ringsleep. It didn't matter.

1311
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:26,759
Speaker 2: We put up a video every single Monday. So now

1312
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:29,360
Speaker 2: what I realized started to happen was even if you

1313
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:32,839
Speaker 2: rocked with Tony Robbins, you got e right at your

1314
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 2: fingertips every day. So by the time you watching him

1315
00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:37,719
Speaker 2: on a regular basis and waiting on your box set

1316
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:41,080
Speaker 2: DVDs because everybody else was doing the freemium model right, like,

1317
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:43,879
Speaker 2: hey watch two minutes of this and then you order

1318
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:46,080
Speaker 2: the rest, we just start giving away every time.

1319
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:48,759
Speaker 3: I oh, he would give a full hour.

1320
00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:50,920
Speaker 2: I didn't care because he's such a content machine you

1321
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 2: see most of the time, Like you go to like

1322
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:55,640
Speaker 2: comedy concerts now and they take your phone. It's because

1323
00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:58,120
Speaker 2: they're doing the exact same routine every time. He never

1324
00:55:58,280 --> 00:56:00,000
Speaker 2: gave it the same speech twice in his life.

1325
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 3: Matter of fact, we.

1326
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:01,920
Speaker 2: Used to go places and people be like, can you

1327
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:04,040
Speaker 2: do the gurgle story again? He was like, I don't

1328
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:06,239
Speaker 2: do that, like this ain't like I'm not doing like

1329
00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:09,400
Speaker 2: a hip hop song like I don't redo my songs,

1330
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:10,719
Speaker 2: and people will be like, he do that when you

1331
00:56:10,719 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 2: want to succeed? Are you gonna tell that story? He

1332
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:14,680
Speaker 2: was like nah, And so I realized that he was

1333
00:56:14,680 --> 00:56:16,640
Speaker 2: a content machine. So we just start putting it out.

1334
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 2: I'm talking about free all day and everybody like, yo, see,

1335
00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:20,080
Speaker 2: how did you come up with that?

1336
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 3: That was dope?

1337
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:22,680
Speaker 2: I said, well, man, I go to the mall on

1338
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:24,680
Speaker 2: a regular basis, and when I go through the food court,

1339
00:56:24,719 --> 00:56:26,839
Speaker 2: shout out to my Asian brethren. It's only one group

1340
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:29,359
Speaker 2: of people willing to let you try their stuff. I'm

1341
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:30,960
Speaker 2: just being real. They had the tooth pick out and

1342
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:33,520
Speaker 2: you walking past them and they like here, and you like,

1343
00:56:33,719 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 2: you won't even want nothing, and they're like no. They aggressive.

1344
00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:38,200
Speaker 2: Sometimes they're like no, no, no, no, just try it and

1345
00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 2: you're like bowing and then you're like, you know what,

1346
00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:41,359
Speaker 2: I take the bourbon, I get. You know what, I'm saying,

1347
00:56:42,120 --> 00:56:45,480
Speaker 2: them off the bourbon. You wasn't even hungry. So I

1348
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 2: used that in my mind. I'm like, oh, okay, people

1349
00:56:48,719 --> 00:56:51,799
Speaker 2: want to try it first, so we start giving it away,

1350
00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:53,399
Speaker 2: and then when people start playing that kind of money,

1351
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:57,160
Speaker 2: I'm like, brou they given us this kind of check

1352
00:56:57,440 --> 00:56:59,440
Speaker 2: to see the same thing that we're giving them every

1353
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:01,560
Speaker 2: single week. They just want to see it live. And

1354
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:04,280
Speaker 2: so from there like taking that mindset and going boom.

1355
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:05,959
Speaker 2: And I want to make sure we go back because

1356
00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:07,840
Speaker 2: you know the question you had show.

1357
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:08,440
Speaker 3: Don't rob me.

1358
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 4: If you've ever been live live is better than you do.

1359
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:16,600
Speaker 9: You know, I just want to make sure hear what camera.

1360
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:23,240
Speaker 2: Listen, listen, I'm hey, I'm gonna tease you, though I

1361
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 2: tell him all the time. So how much did he

1362
00:57:24,960 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 2: say he was getting paid to speak?

1363
00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:26,200
Speaker 4: Now?

1364
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 2: You know, we still haven't had a speech go as

1365
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:30,920
Speaker 2: viralists when you want to succeed as bat as you

1366
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:33,440
Speaker 2: want to breathe. So he getting paid a hundred thousand

1367
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:35,080
Speaker 2: for what we couldn't get paid nothing for to get

1368
00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 2: worse speeches.

1369
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Speaker 7: I wouldn't say what. I wouldn't say worse.

1370
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:50,640
Speaker 2: Hey, listen you greatness upon you.

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Speaker 3: You had a killer virul what's camera do?

1372
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Speaker 9: I look?

1373
00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:52,800
Speaker 8: Hey?

1374
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:56,280
Speaker 3: None of them went that viral.

1375
00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:58,640
Speaker 4: B all right, but they was still just as explosive.

1376
00:57:59,800 --> 00:58:03,440
Speaker 2: They ain't technically they were worse, yes, but no they

1377
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:05,480
Speaker 2: were great. So but back to your question, you know

1378
00:58:05,560 --> 00:58:07,000
Speaker 2: the other thing, And I want to make sure people

1379
00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:09,040
Speaker 2: understand this when you think of the ethos and energy

1380
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:11,840
Speaker 2: of the brand, right like you talked about racism and

1381
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:14,760
Speaker 2: you know I will say this, Yes, we have to

1382
00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 2: fight against a lot of that, of course, but.

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Speaker 2: Crazy thing about when we start coming up, if you notice,

1426
01:00:42,240 --> 01:00:45,240
Speaker 2: like the hip hop culture in the last ten to

1427
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:49,560
Speaker 2: fifteen years is wait, like I died laughing sometimes like

1428
01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:52,600
Speaker 2: Two Live Crew got banned from entire states for the

1429
01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:55,480
Speaker 2: same thing CARDI be doing on bit more than America.

1430
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:57,840
Speaker 6: And I like ice Cube is the perfect ice Ta

1431
01:00:57,920 --> 01:00:59,960
Speaker 6: the perfect example. He made a song called cop Killing

1432
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:01,720
Speaker 6: played a cop for the last twenty years, right.

1433
01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:03,600
Speaker 2: Fam, So you see what I'm saying, So like thin

1434
01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:07,320
Speaker 2: think about the difference in generations where it was like

1435
01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:10,160
Speaker 2: two Live Crew is getting banned from a state and

1436
01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:12,840
Speaker 2: now you know Cardi doing her thing on like Ellen.

1437
01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:15,200
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, So that that we were

1438
01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:17,200
Speaker 2: a part of that. When we came in, nobody was

1439
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:20,400
Speaker 2: wearing gym shoes and hats. Every motivational speaker had a

1440
01:01:20,440 --> 01:01:22,920
Speaker 2: ten piece suit on and was, you know, doing their thing.

1441
01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:24,960
Speaker 2: And so he was the first one and I remember

1442
01:01:25,040 --> 01:01:27,440
Speaker 2: he was I give e credit from a branding perspective

1443
01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:29,040
Speaker 2: of this cause I got to the point where I

1444
01:01:29,080 --> 01:01:30,440
Speaker 2: told you I was wired for the bag.

1445
01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:31,520
Speaker 4: And it was the first time.

1446
01:01:31,560 --> 01:01:33,160
Speaker 2: We were about to get ten thousand dollars for a

1447
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:35,280
Speaker 2: speech and somebody called me and they were like, hey,

1448
01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:37,840
Speaker 2: we want to build Aaron Thomas. I remember he told

1449
01:01:37,840 --> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 2: me like, hey, you need to we need to get

1450
01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:40,800
Speaker 2: up to that five figure mark. And I was like,

1451
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:42,480
Speaker 2: all right, cool, I'm gonna get to ten thousand. Boom,

1452
01:01:42,680 --> 01:01:44,440
Speaker 2: I remember I called. They called. It's like, yeah, we

1453
01:01:44,480 --> 01:01:46,080
Speaker 2: did the whole negotiation. I was like, boom, I got

1454
01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:48,120
Speaker 2: ten racks. Called e I'm like bad, we good, Let's

1455
01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:50,720
Speaker 2: go ten racks. He like, let's go see. So they

1456
01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:52,200
Speaker 2: called me back the next day and it was like, hey,

1457
01:01:52,840 --> 01:01:54,920
Speaker 2: we just talked to the CEO that ten thousands approved.

1458
01:01:54,920 --> 01:01:56,880
Speaker 2: There's no problem with that, but can he wear a

1459
01:01:56,960 --> 01:02:00,960
Speaker 2: suit because it's a corporate like, you know, dinner. And

1460
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:04,080
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, no problem. I'm like right, you

1461
01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:05,800
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, we go right down the sears.

1462
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:09,080
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying a little to this, I

1463
01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:11,800
Speaker 2: called eup. I was like, yo, I called a robot.

1464
01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:13,960
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

1465
01:02:14,240 --> 01:02:15,800
Speaker 2: I was like, called EUP. I was like, yeah, bro,

1466
01:02:16,200 --> 01:02:18,640
Speaker 2: we're good on the ten thousand. They just want you

1467
01:02:18,680 --> 01:02:19,960
Speaker 2: to wear a soup in that joint, you know what

1468
01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:21,840
Speaker 2: I'm saying. Because he was like, oh, tell him, I

1469
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:25,240
Speaker 2: can't do it. I said what He was like, Bro,

1470
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Speaker 2: that's not the brand, Like bro, we hip hop, Like

1471
01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:31,120
Speaker 2: that's what we are. And I was like, bro, I

1472
01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:34,600
Speaker 2: just said they got ten thousand dollars for one speech.

1473
01:02:35,280 --> 01:02:37,360
Speaker 2: He was like, tell him I can't do it, and

1474
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:39,280
Speaker 2: I'll never forget. I called the lady back and she

1475
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:40,760
Speaker 2: was like, hey, how you doing. I was like, yeah,

1476
01:02:40,800 --> 01:02:43,360
Speaker 2: I'm call him back and I was like, you know,

1477
01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:45,880
Speaker 2: I talked to E and we're not gonna be able

1478
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:46,480
Speaker 2: to do the gig.

1479
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:48,520
Speaker 4: He's not gonna wear a suit.

1480
01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:50,200
Speaker 2: And she was like, you mean to tell me that

1481
01:02:50,280 --> 01:02:53,320
Speaker 2: you guys are going to turn down ten thousand just

1482
01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:54,400
Speaker 2: to not have.

1483
01:02:54,320 --> 01:02:54,760
Speaker 3: To wear suit.

1484
01:02:54,800 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 2: I said, hold on, hold on, no, no, no, I will

1485
01:02:56,400 --> 01:02:57,280
Speaker 2: come in and tuck season.

1486
01:02:57,800 --> 01:02:58,280
Speaker 9: You know what I'm saying.

1487
01:02:58,280 --> 01:03:01,640
Speaker 2: I will come to that joint in servemo dirt. He

1488
01:03:01,680 --> 01:03:05,840
Speaker 2: ain't coming, so she was like fine, and I promise you.

1489
01:03:06,040 --> 01:03:07,960
Speaker 2: It was a while later and we were over ten thousand,

1490
01:03:08,040 --> 01:03:10,840
Speaker 2: but a lady called and I booked a gig and

1491
01:03:10,960 --> 01:03:12,760
Speaker 2: she called me back and she was like, oh, we

1492
01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:14,240
Speaker 2: just had one thing, and you know you had that

1493
01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:14,960
Speaker 2: dejah vu.

1494
01:03:15,120 --> 01:03:17,040
Speaker 3: I had dajah vou and I was like, oh my god.

1495
01:03:17,080 --> 01:03:18,480
Speaker 2: I was like, she's about to say we're a suit

1496
01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:19,680
Speaker 2: and I was about to just tell her like, we're

1497
01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:22,040
Speaker 2: not wearing no suit, forget about it. And she was like,

1498
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Speaker 2: can you make sure he wears the hat and the

1499
01:03:24,520 --> 01:03:26,480
Speaker 2: gym shoes because that's how we watch all his videos

1500
01:03:26,520 --> 01:03:27,240
Speaker 2: and when he comes in.

1501
01:03:27,200 --> 01:03:29,680
Speaker 4: We want our whole staff to know it's him and

1502
01:03:30,040 --> 01:03:30,440
Speaker 4: watch this.

1503
01:03:30,480 --> 01:03:33,080
Speaker 7: Though we never talked about this, she wasn't with me

1504
01:03:33,120 --> 01:03:35,840
Speaker 7: when I first started. So I was wearing suits and

1505
01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:37,720
Speaker 7: I just got to a point two things. One I

1506
01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:39,120
Speaker 7: was like, Yo, I'm just tired of being what they

1507
01:03:39,160 --> 01:03:41,240
Speaker 7: want me to be. Bro Like for after a while,

1508
01:03:41,240 --> 01:03:43,440
Speaker 7: you just when you realize bro like, bro, I'm just

1509
01:03:43,520 --> 01:03:45,919
Speaker 7: I'm tired, like this ain't I ain't no suit, dude.

1510
01:03:45,960 --> 01:03:49,440
Speaker 7: I'm from Detroit, brouh this four GM and Christler. Culturally,

1511
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:53,440
Speaker 7: we wear boots. Were going to a plant. You understand

1512
01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:55,800
Speaker 7: I'm saying you had an assembly line, you got a town.

1513
01:03:55,880 --> 01:03:58,920
Speaker 7: That joker go you gonna be and you know, so

1514
01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:01,160
Speaker 7: we don't dress like that. And I know some dudes

1515
01:04:01,160 --> 01:04:04,120
Speaker 7: from the trade, like the HIGHO player stuff gat him.

1516
01:04:04,360 --> 01:04:06,960
Speaker 7: I'm like, I'm not talking about that, bro, I'm talking like,

1517
01:04:07,400 --> 01:04:09,680
Speaker 7: I'm not talking like that. You feel I'm talking about

1518
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:12,720
Speaker 7: like dressing up, dressing up. So I was just like, yo, see,

1519
01:04:12,840 --> 01:04:17,400
Speaker 7: I'm tired as an African American male, Bro, I'm tired

1520
01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:20,160
Speaker 7: of this suit. Ain't got nothing to do with what

1521
01:04:20,240 --> 01:04:23,440
Speaker 7: I do. I'm tired, like I'm tired of tap dancing.

1522
01:04:23,600 --> 01:04:26,360
Speaker 7: And there's always been apart. I think it was four

1523
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:28,920
Speaker 7: four four. Jay Z was breaking down, you know, he

1524
01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:31,360
Speaker 7: was saying it like I don't care, Oh Jay, I

1525
01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:33,440
Speaker 7: don't care what you do. You still And I was like, yo,

1526
01:04:33,520 --> 01:04:36,320
Speaker 7: I'm tired. I'm tired of tap dancing. I'm tired of

1527
01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:38,720
Speaker 7: like doing what they want me to do, like I

1528
01:04:38,760 --> 01:04:41,400
Speaker 7: want to be myself. And I also knew because you

1529
01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:45,520
Speaker 7: remember I'm in the beginning. I'm like Curtis Curtis blow

1530
01:04:45,720 --> 01:04:48,360
Speaker 7: basketball was my face like I was there in the beginning,

1531
01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:50,520
Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying, Like I wasn't. The NWA

1532
01:04:50,600 --> 01:04:53,680
Speaker 7: came later. I was pop too, Biggie that was later.

1533
01:04:54,040 --> 01:04:57,480
Speaker 7: I was there when we was out on the street

1534
01:04:57,480 --> 01:05:01,880
Speaker 7: in Chicago with the cardboard tiktoking, don't stop.

1535
01:05:02,080 --> 01:05:03,640
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Bag to the beats up there?

1536
01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:04,520
Speaker 9: You know what I'm saying.

1537
01:05:04,560 --> 01:05:08,000
Speaker 7: We were doing am breaking a beach street and I

1538
01:05:08,160 --> 01:05:10,120
Speaker 7: knew watching commercials.

1539
01:05:10,440 --> 01:05:11,160
Speaker 4: I'm like, yo, the.

1540
01:05:11,120 --> 01:05:11,880
Speaker 3: Colonel doing the.

1541
01:05:13,640 --> 01:05:19,080
Speaker 7: Whoa okay Southwest? They not Southwest? Wearing shorts, T shirt

1542
01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:22,600
Speaker 7: and they ain't on they rapping the I'm like, okay,

1543
01:05:22,680 --> 01:05:24,960
Speaker 7: we look like hip hop, look like it's It looks

1544
01:05:25,000 --> 01:05:26,880
Speaker 7: like it's taking over. So I was like, yo, e

1545
01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:29,520
Speaker 7: hip hop taking over. Don't be one of those dudes

1546
01:05:29,520 --> 01:05:31,640
Speaker 7: to wait till it take over. Tike on your chance

1547
01:05:31,720 --> 01:05:34,520
Speaker 7: right now, Like just like jay Z and all them

1548
01:05:34,520 --> 01:05:37,720
Speaker 7: are making a you in this game, you can and

1549
01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:39,880
Speaker 7: listen to me, bro, Like y'all may not get this.

1550
01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:43,520
Speaker 7: We always been rats, bro, before we did anything else.

1551
01:05:43,640 --> 01:05:46,120
Speaker 7: We could speak. That's how we got out of slavery.

1552
01:05:46,520 --> 01:05:49,640
Speaker 7: It's being able to speak talk, being able to like

1553
01:05:49,800 --> 01:05:54,240
Speaker 7: articulate Frederick Douglas articulate like du why they articulate like

1554
01:05:54,280 --> 01:05:56,880
Speaker 7: they got us out on that mouthfeet You look at

1555
01:05:56,920 --> 01:05:58,200
Speaker 7: the on your y'all from New York.

1556
01:05:58,280 --> 01:05:59,040
Speaker 4: Just look at the block.

1557
01:05:59,160 --> 01:06:02,320
Speaker 7: They telling Joe, they running game, They trying to mac

1558
01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:06,120
Speaker 7: the girl like we've always done this, We've always been talkers.

1559
01:06:06,280 --> 01:06:08,000
Speaker 7: I was like, bro, this is what we do. I

1560
01:06:08,040 --> 01:06:10,560
Speaker 7: got home court advantage, Like this is what we own.

1561
01:06:11,240 --> 01:06:14,200
Speaker 7: And not only do we do this, the world respects Martin,

1562
01:06:14,560 --> 01:06:17,440
Speaker 7: the world respects x X was on the he was

1563
01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:20,200
Speaker 7: on the copy of stuff. He had a relationship to

1564
01:06:20,320 --> 01:06:22,520
Speaker 7: FBI was on my man like he wasn't no, he

1565
01:06:22,640 --> 01:06:27,560
Speaker 7: wasn't no lame. So the mouthpiece has always been Richard

1566
01:06:27,560 --> 01:06:31,640
Speaker 7: pryor Red Fox. The mouthpiece always been sweet. And so

1567
01:06:31,680 --> 01:06:33,040
Speaker 7: I was just like, bro, this is what we got.

1568
01:06:33,120 --> 01:06:36,600
Speaker 7: We got home court advantage. Because you love Mohela Jackson.

1569
01:06:36,600 --> 01:06:40,000
Speaker 7: Why she don't just sing the hymnos. She's singing with soul.

1570
01:06:40,560 --> 01:06:44,240
Speaker 7: I don't just speak, I speak with soul. This is

1571
01:06:44,320 --> 01:06:46,320
Speaker 7: my arena. And y'all ain't gonna tell me how to

1572
01:06:46,360 --> 01:06:48,480
Speaker 7: do it no more because you don't have home court

1573
01:06:48,480 --> 01:06:50,440
Speaker 7: advantage of this. I got it, And I'm about to

1574
01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:52,800
Speaker 7: put my foot down and I'm about to establish who

1575
01:06:52,840 --> 01:06:54,720
Speaker 7: I am in the earth, and I'm not playing games

1576
01:06:54,720 --> 01:06:56,439
Speaker 7: with y'all no more. And I'm not running up behind

1577
01:06:56,480 --> 01:06:59,480
Speaker 7: your money. And from that day forth, I think even

1578
01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:02,840
Speaker 7: for him, it was more of a ooh, this okay,

1579
01:07:03,120 --> 01:07:06,040
Speaker 7: this our like, this our lane now and I don't

1580
01:07:06,040 --> 01:07:08,840
Speaker 7: have to be timid when I'm making deals no more.

1581
01:07:09,240 --> 01:07:09,960
Speaker 3: I can whatever.

1582
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:11,560
Speaker 4: And after that, bro, I'm just telling you, like we

1583
01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:12,000
Speaker 4: took off.

1584
01:07:12,320 --> 01:07:14,640
Speaker 6: That reminds me of kind of my story too, because

1585
01:07:14,840 --> 01:07:16,560
Speaker 6: I used to be a financial advisor before I did this,

1586
01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:18,160
Speaker 6: and I was a financial advisor for twelve years. And

1587
01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:20,960
Speaker 6: when I first started, my first office was in Mahat.

1588
01:07:21,400 --> 01:07:23,760
Speaker 6: It was on Park Avenue, so you know, coming I'm

1589
01:07:23,760 --> 01:07:25,400
Speaker 6: like twenty four year old black kid, one of the

1590
01:07:25,480 --> 01:07:28,040
Speaker 6: only black people in the office. So you know, it's

1591
01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:29,720
Speaker 6: you don't even think about you wear a suit, you

1592
01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:31,600
Speaker 6: wear a shirt tie. That's how you know you're not

1593
01:07:31,640 --> 01:07:33,760
Speaker 6: really respected if you're not even on casual Fridays, you

1594
01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:34,320
Speaker 6: at least wear a.

1595
01:07:34,320 --> 01:07:36,760
Speaker 3: Polo shirt, right, that's a shirt and loaf and stuff

1596
01:07:36,760 --> 01:07:37,120
Speaker 3: like that.

1597
01:07:37,480 --> 01:07:39,600
Speaker 6: And I was doing that for like ten years, and

1598
01:07:39,640 --> 01:07:41,880
Speaker 6: I actually did like it on a certain level. I

1599
01:07:41,880 --> 01:07:43,480
Speaker 6: got into the suits and all of that, and I

1600
01:07:43,520 --> 01:07:46,000
Speaker 6: still wear suits every now and then, but I'm like

1601
01:07:46,480 --> 01:07:49,640
Speaker 6: by choice, yeah, exactly, so, But when we started this,

1602
01:07:49,720 --> 01:07:52,120
Speaker 6: it was like very intentional that we just dressed how

1603
01:07:52,160 --> 01:07:54,480
Speaker 6: we dressed, whether it's T shirt, hoodie, you know, with

1604
01:07:54,480 --> 01:07:57,280
Speaker 6: a lawsuit, because that's that's the era that we grew

1605
01:07:57,360 --> 01:08:00,640
Speaker 6: up in. And it's like, you know, we could dictate

1606
01:08:01,360 --> 01:08:03,920
Speaker 6: they can't dictate it to us. So it's like you

1607
01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:06,959
Speaker 6: can't just lower our intelligence by saying, oh, they wearing

1608
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:10,280
Speaker 6: T shirts. So that just discredits them, because now that

1609
01:08:10,320 --> 01:08:12,680
Speaker 6: forces you to think differently, right, because for a long time,

1610
01:08:12,760 --> 01:08:14,840
Speaker 6: nobody in business was RESPECTU unless you had the a

1611
01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:15,320
Speaker 6: A suit on it.

1612
01:08:15,400 --> 01:08:16,960
Speaker 2: But it's hard to do that though, when you tell

1613
01:08:17,000 --> 01:08:19,120
Speaker 2: somebody who's on the come up, right, Like if you

1614
01:08:19,120 --> 01:08:22,000
Speaker 2: know you working, you at a place where they're telling you, like,

1615
01:08:22,080 --> 01:08:24,560
Speaker 2: this is the acceptable norm in the standard. And so

1616
01:08:24,640 --> 01:08:26,400
Speaker 2: it's easy for us to say now because of what

1617
01:08:26,439 --> 01:08:28,960
Speaker 2: we built, but people do feel that pressure to conform.

1618
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:29,120
Speaker 3: Bro.

1619
01:08:29,240 --> 01:08:31,920
Speaker 2: You I'm just being real, Bro, Like we run a

1620
01:08:31,960 --> 01:08:33,760
Speaker 2: solar company. Shout out the Harbor Solar. You know what

1621
01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:36,519
Speaker 2: I'm saying, Like, Bro, we have guys who go door

1622
01:08:36,560 --> 01:08:39,519
Speaker 2: to door. I'm just being real. The black kid knocking

1623
01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:41,679
Speaker 2: on somebody door cold, it's different than the good looking

1624
01:08:41,720 --> 01:08:44,280
Speaker 2: white dude with the blind hair. I'm just saying, opening

1625
01:08:44,280 --> 01:08:46,400
Speaker 2: your door. They literally have to get somebody to open

1626
01:08:46,479 --> 01:08:48,160
Speaker 2: the door and walk into the house and sit down

1627
01:08:48,200 --> 01:08:51,000
Speaker 2: at their dinner dining room table. Bro, when you black,

1628
01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:53,439
Speaker 2: it's not an excuse, it's just a reason.

1629
01:08:53,760 --> 01:08:54,360
Speaker 3: That's just bro.

1630
01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:57,280
Speaker 2: That's why we always say we got to be even better,

1631
01:08:57,640 --> 01:08:59,400
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, go faster and stronger. So

1632
01:08:59,400 --> 01:09:01,280
Speaker 2: that's why we get on our guys like, yo, you

1633
01:09:01,320 --> 01:09:04,040
Speaker 2: can't be already starting to race back and running slower,

1634
01:09:04,200 --> 01:09:05,880
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, Like it could be done,

1635
01:09:05,960 --> 01:09:07,400
Speaker 2: but you really got to put that work in the

1636
01:09:07,439 --> 01:09:10,240
Speaker 2: grind because there are some built in disadvantages that most

1637
01:09:10,240 --> 01:09:13,240
Speaker 2: people would never understand. It's funny, just you know, while

1638
01:09:13,280 --> 01:09:15,519
Speaker 2: we're on that, I was at my knee swim meet

1639
01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:19,600
Speaker 2: last night, right crazy, and you know, swimming ain't necessarily

1640
01:09:19,600 --> 01:09:21,639
Speaker 2: our thing, so it ain't a lot of us out there, right,

1641
01:09:22,120 --> 01:09:25,880
Speaker 2: And my brother, my sister in law, this guy standing

1642
01:09:25,880 --> 01:09:27,679
Speaker 2: there taking pictures like right in front of her seat,

1643
01:09:27,720 --> 01:09:29,400
Speaker 2: and so it's loud out there or whatever, and she

1644
01:09:29,520 --> 01:09:31,280
Speaker 2: like tapped my man on the side of the shoulder

1645
01:09:31,280 --> 01:09:34,240
Speaker 2: like hey, excuse me, I'm door just like barely no, no, no,

1646
01:09:34,320 --> 01:09:35,960
Speaker 2: just like trying to get to her seat, just like

1647
01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:38,320
Speaker 2: you know, I couldn't hear. My man turns there and

1648
01:09:38,320 --> 01:09:41,720
Speaker 2: he's like, hey, don't touch me, and you know, you

1649
01:09:41,760 --> 01:09:44,000
Speaker 2: know training he not for the games. So my brother

1650
01:09:44,120 --> 01:09:46,040
Speaker 2: was like, you know, I'm talking about about to give

1651
01:09:46,120 --> 01:09:47,599
Speaker 2: my man the business, and I, you know, of course,

1652
01:09:47,640 --> 01:09:49,400
Speaker 2: I calmed down. I'm like, look, we got too much

1653
01:09:49,400 --> 01:09:52,800
Speaker 2: to lose these days. And Train was like, yo, my man,

1654
01:09:53,280 --> 01:09:55,439
Speaker 2: he was only doing that because we're black. And I

1655
01:09:55,479 --> 01:09:57,760
Speaker 2: was like, you know what's crazy. I said, you might

1656
01:09:57,800 --> 01:09:59,360
Speaker 2: be right, you might not. My man might be a

1657
01:09:59,439 --> 01:10:01,960
Speaker 2: jerk to every but unfortunately, when you black, you have

1658
01:10:02,000 --> 01:10:04,879
Speaker 2: to take that into consideration. And so it's a mindset

1659
01:10:04,880 --> 01:10:08,840
Speaker 2: that I think that we've been given by society that

1660
01:10:08,880 --> 01:10:10,800
Speaker 2: we have to work through. I tell people all the time,

1661
01:10:10,960 --> 01:10:12,479
Speaker 2: it's like, if you white and you got a great

1662
01:10:12,520 --> 01:10:14,040
Speaker 2: and I tell my white friends this all the time.

1663
01:10:14,120 --> 01:10:16,160
Speaker 2: You got a great idea, you've got a great business,

1664
01:10:16,200 --> 01:10:18,639
Speaker 2: you got a little paper, some investors, at no point

1665
01:10:18,640 --> 01:10:21,000
Speaker 2: do you have to process. But I'm also black walking

1666
01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:23,880
Speaker 2: in this room, and as black men, especially being some

1667
01:10:23,920 --> 01:10:26,240
Speaker 2: of the most feared people on the planet, I'm always

1668
01:10:26,280 --> 01:10:28,559
Speaker 2: aware of my blackness, whether I should be or not.

1669
01:10:28,640 --> 01:10:30,719
Speaker 2: When I'm at the mall or I'm at the hotel

1670
01:10:30,800 --> 01:10:32,479
Speaker 2: picking up eat from the wald off the story this

1671
01:10:32,560 --> 01:10:35,960
Speaker 2: morning and I get into an elevator with an older

1672
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:38,840
Speaker 2: white woman, I'm very aware and she very aware of

1673
01:10:38,840 --> 01:10:40,840
Speaker 2: what this scenario feels like right in this moment, you

1674
01:10:40,840 --> 01:10:42,760
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. And so that's why it's so

1675
01:10:42,800 --> 01:10:46,360
Speaker 2: important for us to teach our young black men. You know,

1676
01:10:46,439 --> 01:10:47,960
Speaker 2: you don't have to wear the suit and do all

1677
01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:49,840
Speaker 2: of that, but you do have to be sharp and

1678
01:10:50,240 --> 01:10:51,840
Speaker 2: ready to play ball at all times, you know what

1679
01:10:51,880 --> 01:10:52,280
Speaker 2: I'm saying.

1680
01:10:53,160 --> 01:10:54,679
Speaker 3: So talk about growing laterally.

1681
01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:58,720
Speaker 6: And you know you have the Alice good Energies of

1682
01:10:58,760 --> 01:11:01,280
Speaker 6: the world.

1683
01:11:01,640 --> 01:11:06,120
Speaker 3: His name, Yeah you got that's his last name. Yeah yeah, right,

1684
01:11:07,320 --> 01:11:09,040
Speaker 3: come on, n w I g w E.

1685
01:11:09,560 --> 01:11:10,200
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.

1686
01:11:10,800 --> 01:11:12,679
Speaker 3: You got you got five millionaire?

1687
01:11:12,800 --> 01:11:18,960
Speaker 12: Yeah yeah, man, Jeremy, you got the crew, Niki Ni Niki.

1688
01:11:19,360 --> 01:11:21,639
Speaker 12: So all right, so now you kind of have built

1689
01:11:22,360 --> 01:11:25,160
Speaker 12: what is it a management firm type? What's the relationship

1690
01:11:25,200 --> 01:11:26,960
Speaker 12: with all of these different people in the ecosystem.

1691
01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:30,080
Speaker 2: No, these are all just I say friends and business partners,

1692
01:11:30,320 --> 01:11:33,800
Speaker 2: you know, brothers. You know, it was crazy because what

1693
01:11:33,880 --> 01:11:37,080
Speaker 2: I realized is and Toby really made me realize it,

1694
01:11:37,160 --> 01:11:41,439
Speaker 2: right because like the same people don't even like if

1695
01:11:41,479 --> 01:11:43,280
Speaker 2: people go back and watch right, we just thank God

1696
01:11:43,280 --> 01:11:48,439
Speaker 2: It's Monday forever. Anybody know how Toby blew up Get

1697
01:11:48,439 --> 01:11:49,360
Speaker 2: Twisted Sundays.

1698
01:11:49,439 --> 01:11:50,280
Speaker 3: Get Twisted Sunday.

1699
01:11:50,640 --> 01:11:52,840
Speaker 2: He would sit on the floor and his wife would

1700
01:11:52,840 --> 01:11:55,680
Speaker 2: twist his hair and that's what blew him up. And

1701
01:11:55,760 --> 01:11:57,960
Speaker 2: people didn't even catch on to the fact that all

1702
01:11:58,000 --> 01:12:00,360
Speaker 2: we did was take thank God is Monday, which was

1703
01:12:00,360 --> 01:12:04,120
Speaker 2: a weekly motivational series, and do Get Twisted Sundays, which

1704
01:12:04,200 --> 01:12:06,400
Speaker 2: was a week and he did it every single week

1705
01:12:06,439 --> 01:12:09,920
Speaker 2: on Instagram on Instagram, and it literally blew up because

1706
01:12:09,960 --> 01:12:12,280
Speaker 2: he did it consistently and it started to build a following.

1707
01:12:12,479 --> 01:12:14,479
Speaker 2: And so we really used that same blueprint. But to

1708
01:12:14,560 --> 01:12:17,320
Speaker 2: your question, Alex, again, I had figured out a lot

1709
01:12:17,360 --> 01:12:19,760
Speaker 2: of stuff being in this space early, right like I

1710
01:12:19,840 --> 01:12:21,960
Speaker 2: was with him early. I'm thirty nine, about to be forty,

1711
01:12:22,200 --> 01:12:24,120
Speaker 2: but he's a little older and have put me on

1712
01:12:24,200 --> 01:12:26,360
Speaker 2: a lot of gaming because we lived so much life

1713
01:12:26,360 --> 01:12:28,759
Speaker 2: through this space that I learned a lot. So for instance,

1714
01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:31,400
Speaker 2: when I met Alex, you know in Jamaica, Alex is

1715
01:12:31,439 --> 01:12:33,240
Speaker 2: telling me he was doing one on ones. Well, how

1716
01:12:33,280 --> 01:12:34,760
Speaker 2: did I know he was tired of doing one on

1717
01:12:34,760 --> 01:12:36,160
Speaker 2: ones because I used to do one on ones and

1718
01:12:36,200 --> 01:12:37,479
Speaker 2: I was tired of doing one on one. So what

1719
01:12:37,479 --> 01:12:39,200
Speaker 2: did I do when out side away on one on ones?

1720
01:12:39,240 --> 01:12:42,679
Speaker 2: We created a Breathe University and that was a platform

1721
01:12:42,680 --> 01:12:44,759
Speaker 2: that let everybody come under the foe. So when Alex

1722
01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:46,599
Speaker 2: was telling me, Yo, I'm burned out on these one

1723
01:12:46,600 --> 01:12:48,080
Speaker 2: on ones, I said, oh, we got to get it

1724
01:12:48,120 --> 01:12:48,920
Speaker 2: over into a course.

1725
01:12:48,960 --> 01:12:49,840
Speaker 3: He was like, what's the course?

1726
01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:51,760
Speaker 2: I said, Bro, We're just gonna put everything you know

1727
01:12:52,200 --> 01:12:54,080
Speaker 2: into a course so that the masters can come get it.

1728
01:12:54,120 --> 01:12:56,640
Speaker 2: Because what if I live in Chicago or Houston or

1729
01:12:56,720 --> 01:12:59,679
Speaker 2: Philadelphia or LA and I want to learn this information

1730
01:12:59,680 --> 01:13:01,599
Speaker 2: from you, I gotta fly in the Atlanta and get

1731
01:13:01,640 --> 01:13:03,280
Speaker 2: in the hotel for a week for you to teach

1732
01:13:03,320 --> 01:13:05,080
Speaker 2: me all the stuff that I could learn from my computer.

1733
01:13:05,400 --> 01:13:09,040
Speaker 2: And so it was just really me saying, Yo, all

1734
01:13:09,080 --> 01:13:11,800
Speaker 2: of these people who are coming up with us, let's

1735
01:13:11,800 --> 01:13:13,599
Speaker 2: go ahead and give them the game. It wasn't even

1736
01:13:13,640 --> 01:13:15,200
Speaker 2: so much as like pay me for this or pay

1737
01:13:15,240 --> 01:13:17,280
Speaker 2: me for that. It was like I understood, Like I

1738
01:13:17,320 --> 01:13:20,439
Speaker 2: told you, we studied whole. Hoe said, if everybody in

1739
01:13:20,520 --> 01:13:22,720
Speaker 2: your click is rich, your click is rugged, nobody fall.

1740
01:13:24,600 --> 01:13:26,240
Speaker 3: And I believe really from New York.

1741
01:13:26,680 --> 01:13:30,520
Speaker 7: No, no, no, I told you it was a little test.

1742
01:13:30,640 --> 01:13:33,320
Speaker 2: I just believed that if Alex was doing good work

1743
01:13:33,320 --> 01:13:36,600
Speaker 2: in this world and turned himself into a multi millionaire,

1744
01:13:37,040 --> 01:13:39,559
Speaker 2: that at some point we would be doing great business together,

1745
01:13:39,600 --> 01:13:42,080
Speaker 2: which is what we do now. Inky, same thing I

1746
01:13:42,080 --> 01:13:44,559
Speaker 2: saw Inky is like Inky is the closest thing I've

1747
01:13:44,600 --> 01:13:46,680
Speaker 2: ever seen the e in my life. Like Inky is

1748
01:13:46,680 --> 01:13:48,880
Speaker 2: a machine dog, just a good dude. So Inky used

1749
01:13:48,920 --> 01:13:51,120
Speaker 2: to just pull up at my crib and be like, yo, see,

1750
01:13:51,200 --> 01:13:51,960
Speaker 2: let me know what's up.

1751
01:13:52,000 --> 01:13:52,639
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

1752
01:13:52,760 --> 01:13:55,519
Speaker 2: So my job was to always help people who had

1753
01:13:55,560 --> 01:13:57,880
Speaker 2: a gift to take that thing to the next level.

1754
01:13:57,880 --> 01:13:59,559
Speaker 2: And people always like, yo, you know, how do I

1755
01:13:59,600 --> 01:14:01,400
Speaker 2: find my gift or whatever? And I tell people all

1756
01:14:01,439 --> 01:14:04,559
Speaker 2: the time, what comes easy to you, that's hard for most? Right,

1757
01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:06,360
Speaker 2: Like think about that, Like what comes easy to you

1758
01:14:06,400 --> 01:14:08,560
Speaker 2: that's hard for most? That's usually where your gift is.

1759
01:14:08,600 --> 01:14:10,000
Speaker 2: You know them people, I don't know who drew that,

1760
01:14:10,200 --> 01:14:11,880
Speaker 2: but somebody who drew that, I'm not saying that they

1761
01:14:11,920 --> 01:14:14,280
Speaker 2: didn't put a ton of work into their craft. But

1762
01:14:14,280 --> 01:14:15,840
Speaker 2: they probably was like one of them kids when they

1763
01:14:15,920 --> 01:14:17,760
Speaker 2: was like eight years old just start dueling you. Was like, yo,

1764
01:14:17,880 --> 01:14:20,080
Speaker 2: my man, kind of nice with that. I've been trying.

1765
01:14:20,120 --> 01:14:22,720
Speaker 2: I love drawing, bro, I can't draw a stick figure, Like,

1766
01:14:22,760 --> 01:14:24,880
Speaker 2: it's just not in me, right, That's not my natural gift.

1767
01:14:25,200 --> 01:14:27,719
Speaker 2: My natural gift is speaking and being able to see

1768
01:14:27,720 --> 01:14:29,439
Speaker 2: what's hot. Like I always used to pick like what's

1769
01:14:29,439 --> 01:14:31,439
Speaker 2: still gonna be the single off the album? That used

1770
01:14:31,439 --> 01:14:32,960
Speaker 2: to be my thing. Like I would get an album,

1771
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:35,040
Speaker 2: a jay Z album and listen to it and be like, Okay,

1772
01:14:35,040 --> 01:14:36,880
Speaker 2: this track, this track and this track gonna be the single.

1773
01:14:37,080 --> 01:14:38,760
Speaker 2: So that's when I knew when East start, when we

1774
01:14:38,760 --> 01:14:40,960
Speaker 2: start putting EA stuff together, I would take in piece

1775
01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:41,519
Speaker 2: of all together.

1776
01:14:41,720 --> 01:14:43,600
Speaker 3: I would be like, okay, music.

1777
01:14:43,320 --> 01:14:47,120
Speaker 2: Here, crescendo it here, off here, and then every time

1778
01:14:47,160 --> 01:14:49,519
Speaker 2: it would go viral and so that. But I'm in

1779
01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:52,000
Speaker 2: my gift. So when you see Nikki, she's in her

1780
01:14:52,080 --> 01:14:54,479
Speaker 2: natural gift. When you see Jeremy Anderson, when you see Alex,

1781
01:14:54,520 --> 01:14:56,960
Speaker 2: they're in their gift. When you see Inkys in his gift,

1782
01:14:57,240 --> 01:15:00,519
Speaker 2: and you know Toby he bro Me and Toby Full

1783
01:15:00,720 --> 01:15:01,559
Speaker 2: you know quick story.

1784
01:15:01,800 --> 01:15:02,439
Speaker 3: Were in the car.

1785
01:15:02,600 --> 01:15:04,519
Speaker 2: Toby was just in the car with me and he

1786
01:15:04,600 --> 01:15:07,280
Speaker 2: starts freestyling and I looked at him and I was like.

1787
01:15:07,240 --> 01:15:08,240
Speaker 3: How'd you meet him?

1788
01:15:08,400 --> 01:15:10,760
Speaker 2: So okay, he told me came and picked up from

1789
01:15:10,760 --> 01:15:12,920
Speaker 2: the airport one time. He called into the number we

1790
01:15:12,960 --> 01:15:13,639
Speaker 2: had on the battage.

1791
01:15:13,680 --> 01:15:15,360
Speaker 4: I was still working at Michigan State University.

1792
01:15:15,360 --> 01:15:16,080
Speaker 3: Was a driver.

1793
01:15:16,360 --> 01:15:19,519
Speaker 7: He was he just wanted to get not like that

1794
01:15:20,280 --> 01:15:23,920
Speaker 7: he was he had finished playing about nothing. I s

1795
01:15:23,960 --> 01:15:29,280
Speaker 7: not like I didn't wish you sorry, don't apologize. I

1796
01:15:29,320 --> 01:15:32,240
Speaker 7: meant he had finished. Yeah, he had finished football. He

1797
01:15:32,240 --> 01:15:33,919
Speaker 7: didn't know what he was going to do in life.

1798
01:15:34,400 --> 01:15:37,720
Speaker 7: And he just called him. Was like, yo, e I'm this, this,

1799
01:15:37,720 --> 01:15:39,679
Speaker 7: this and that, and if I just want to connect

1800
01:15:39,720 --> 01:15:42,120
Speaker 7: with you because I watched you, I get inspired by you.

1801
01:15:42,160 --> 01:15:44,479
Speaker 7: So if you're ever in Houston, I'm gonna come pick

1802
01:15:44,520 --> 01:15:46,320
Speaker 7: you up. And I was like, all right. Beat ended

1803
01:15:46,360 --> 01:15:51,120
Speaker 7: up going to Houston working with Houston Cougar's basketball at

1804
01:15:51,120 --> 01:15:53,080
Speaker 7: the time, and I was like, yo, told my MoMA.

1805
01:15:53,080 --> 01:15:54,439
Speaker 7: I didn't know him, but I was like, yo, I'm

1806
01:15:54,479 --> 01:15:55,760
Speaker 7: on my way. He like, let me come get you.

1807
01:15:55,800 --> 01:15:58,680
Speaker 7: And the crazy thing about it is told came and

1808
01:15:58,720 --> 01:16:01,160
Speaker 7: got me every time, and I never realized that he

1809
01:16:01,200 --> 01:16:02,240
Speaker 7: blew up that he didn't.

1810
01:16:02,040 --> 01:16:02,400
Speaker 4: Have a car.

1811
01:16:03,360 --> 01:16:07,200
Speaker 7: He would his homegirl worked that enterprise and she would

1812
01:16:07,200 --> 01:16:09,000
Speaker 7: hook him up when I would come to town, and

1813
01:16:09,040 --> 01:16:11,760
Speaker 7: so he would fake it like he had transportation.

1814
01:16:11,840 --> 01:16:13,679
Speaker 4: He picked me up in the truck, put.

1815
01:16:13,479 --> 01:16:15,360
Speaker 7: My stuff in, and so when I would go to

1816
01:16:15,360 --> 01:16:16,640
Speaker 7: the hotel, he would stay with me.

1817
01:16:16,960 --> 01:16:18,200
Speaker 4: So I'm like, yo, you take the bed.

1818
01:16:18,240 --> 01:16:20,040
Speaker 7: I take the floor, because at that time I wouldn't

1819
01:16:20,040 --> 01:16:22,800
Speaker 7: really balling balling where I could get multiple hotel room

1820
01:16:22,920 --> 01:16:23,280
Speaker 7: or me.

1821
01:16:23,400 --> 01:16:25,080
Speaker 3: I just love I had no brothers, so I just

1822
01:16:25,080 --> 01:16:25,360
Speaker 3: love it.

1823
01:16:25,400 --> 01:16:27,160
Speaker 7: So he's sleep in the bed, I sleep on the

1824
01:16:27,160 --> 01:16:29,400
Speaker 7: floor and we just hang out. And he took me

1825
01:16:29,439 --> 01:16:32,120
Speaker 7: to his school and did a play. I never seen

1826
01:16:32,120 --> 01:16:35,080
Speaker 7: nothing like it. He wrapped his sister dance. I never

1827
01:16:35,120 --> 01:16:38,679
Speaker 7: seen kids. It was like a black musical. I never

1828
01:16:38,720 --> 01:16:41,559
Speaker 7: seen kids that locked in other than you know. When

1829
01:16:41,560 --> 01:16:44,400
Speaker 7: I was speaking and I called, see, like, yo, see

1830
01:16:44,720 --> 01:16:48,160
Speaker 7: this dude, broh, you cause see on that, like see

1831
01:16:48,240 --> 01:16:50,040
Speaker 7: beyond that, Like he don't like to talk to people,

1832
01:16:50,080 --> 01:16:52,880
Speaker 7: meet people like he just in our circle, Like he

1833
01:16:52,960 --> 01:16:55,759
Speaker 7: don't he just weird like that, he don't like people.

1834
01:16:56,320 --> 01:16:58,280
Speaker 2: I was like he got a lot of ideas. That's

1835
01:16:58,280 --> 01:17:00,800
Speaker 2: the problem. He called you every thirty seven with an idea.

1836
01:17:00,840 --> 01:17:03,280
Speaker 7: I'm like, bro, I meet people and I'm like, I

1837
01:17:03,320 --> 01:17:05,040
Speaker 7: think this the one, not all I make the one,

1838
01:17:05,479 --> 01:17:07,040
Speaker 7: but you got to listen to something of them if

1839
01:17:07,080 --> 01:17:07,960
Speaker 7: they gonna meet them one.

1840
01:17:08,040 --> 01:17:08,960
Speaker 3: So I was like, no. Told.

1841
01:17:09,000 --> 01:17:10,200
Speaker 4: I was like, I know, I messed up on the

1842
01:17:10,200 --> 01:17:13,160
Speaker 4: couple with the one. I'm telling you one.

1843
01:17:13,280 --> 01:17:16,639
Speaker 2: No, but mind you though, never nothing to do with music,

1844
01:17:16,960 --> 01:17:18,320
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. He was like, the kid

1845
01:17:18,479 --> 01:17:20,960
Speaker 2: was just talented. And so we were down there, and

1846
01:17:21,840 --> 01:17:23,479
Speaker 2: remember I told you my wife took that job with

1847
01:17:23,560 --> 01:17:27,000
Speaker 2: General Electric, and so she was getting rotated across the

1848
01:17:27,040 --> 01:17:29,280
Speaker 2: country and one of our stops was in Houston. So

1849
01:17:29,320 --> 01:17:31,080
Speaker 2: when I was there, I finally hit Toby up and

1850
01:17:31,200 --> 01:17:33,320
Speaker 2: was like, all right, man, Eve want us to meet whatever.

1851
01:17:33,360 --> 01:17:34,880
Speaker 2: And of course he came through and we hit it off.

1852
01:17:34,880 --> 01:17:36,360
Speaker 2: We just kicking it and we were in the car

1853
01:17:36,439 --> 01:17:38,720
Speaker 2: one day and I promise you nobody's seen it. I

1854
01:17:38,760 --> 01:17:41,280
Speaker 2: got the video. Nikki seen it before. I got a

1855
01:17:41,360 --> 01:17:43,360
Speaker 2: video from the very first time we were in the car,

1856
01:17:44,600 --> 01:17:46,880
Speaker 2: ten years ago. Whatever it is, sitting in the ride

1857
01:17:47,240 --> 01:17:50,040
Speaker 2: and Toby start freestyling, and I couldn't believe it. I

1858
01:17:50,160 --> 01:17:52,720
Speaker 2: was like, yo, I've never heard nobody rap like this,

1859
01:17:52,840 --> 01:17:54,240
Speaker 2: right And I was like, YOA ain't know you wrapped.

1860
01:17:54,280 --> 01:17:55,719
Speaker 2: He was like, I've never wrapped the day in my life.

1861
01:17:55,760 --> 01:17:57,760
Speaker 2: I was like what I was like. I turned my

1862
01:17:57,840 --> 01:17:59,840
Speaker 2: camera on, I got the video on my phone. I

1863
01:17:59,880 --> 01:18:01,519
Speaker 2: was like, yo, start rapping.

1864
01:18:01,720 --> 01:18:01,840
Speaker 3: Bro.

1865
01:18:01,960 --> 01:18:03,600
Speaker 2: He just start rapping, and I was like, Yo, this

1866
01:18:03,720 --> 01:18:06,439
Speaker 2: is crazy. At the same time, he and I were

1867
01:18:06,439 --> 01:18:08,080
Speaker 2: coming up a little bit, so I was like, look,

1868
01:18:08,320 --> 01:18:10,760
Speaker 2: I don't know what else you're doing right now. I

1869
01:18:10,800 --> 01:18:13,559
Speaker 2: can give you like a couple dollars to just focus

1870
01:18:13,600 --> 01:18:15,080
Speaker 2: on music full time. He's like, what do you want

1871
01:18:15,080 --> 01:18:16,680
Speaker 2: me to do? I was like, bro, I don't know,

1872
01:18:17,080 --> 01:18:19,519
Speaker 2: just start figuring it out. Because again what I say,

1873
01:18:20,040 --> 01:18:22,040
Speaker 2: imagine the cat who could sit here and rap like this,

1874
01:18:22,080 --> 01:18:26,240
Speaker 2: who's never actually tried me. I tried rapping. I got

1875
01:18:26,240 --> 01:18:28,080
Speaker 2: three four rap names. I was in a group, you

1876
01:18:28,080 --> 01:18:29,439
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. Like y'all said before, it was

1877
01:18:29,560 --> 01:18:32,280
Speaker 2: a group. I got a mixtape. God forbid, I ever

1878
01:18:32,320 --> 01:18:34,639
Speaker 2: see the light of day. We saw my bus and guns,

1879
01:18:34,680 --> 01:18:36,559
Speaker 2: all kind of stuff. We were shooting people.

1880
01:18:36,720 --> 01:18:39,320
Speaker 9: I ain't never held a gun oh, I'm talking about crazy.

1881
01:18:40,400 --> 01:18:44,200
Speaker 2: But Toby again, I said, Man, you could rap like

1882
01:18:44,240 --> 01:18:46,400
Speaker 2: this without trying. Imagine if you put it into ten

1883
01:18:46,439 --> 01:18:48,839
Speaker 2: thousand hours. We were big on glad Well at the time, Outliers.

1884
01:18:48,840 --> 01:18:50,680
Speaker 2: I don't know if y'all ever read ours, but you

1885
01:18:50,720 --> 01:18:51,800
Speaker 2: know the ten thousand hour rule.

1886
01:18:51,840 --> 01:18:53,519
Speaker 4: We were big on that. So I was like, Yo,

1887
01:18:53,640 --> 01:18:54,760
Speaker 4: just start rapping right now.

1888
01:18:54,920 --> 01:18:56,800
Speaker 2: And he started rapping, bro, And then like I said,

1889
01:18:56,800 --> 01:18:59,599
Speaker 2: to get twisted, Sunday's things start hitting. And then sure

1890
01:19:00,040 --> 01:19:02,000
Speaker 2: and sure enough, Bro, I mean, this boy doing stuff

1891
01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:04,800
Speaker 2: with Beyonce. We got records coming out. By the time

1892
01:19:04,880 --> 01:19:07,200
Speaker 2: this come out, y'all are here. But uh, you know

1893
01:19:07,320 --> 01:19:09,599
Speaker 2: some of the biggest producers in the game collabing with

1894
01:19:09,880 --> 01:19:12,200
Speaker 2: you know, some of the biggest artists. So for me

1895
01:19:12,880 --> 01:19:16,360
Speaker 2: to watch what we did and then see it work

1896
01:19:16,439 --> 01:19:19,400
Speaker 2: in a completely different genre is nuts, right to just

1897
01:19:19,439 --> 01:19:21,479
Speaker 2: see like this don't have nothing to do with music,

1898
01:19:21,680 --> 01:19:23,920
Speaker 2: And now we got somebody who's descended through the music

1899
01:19:24,000 --> 01:19:25,720
Speaker 2: ranks like that. And It's the only thing I don't

1900
01:19:25,800 --> 01:19:27,680
Speaker 2: like now is everybody think I'm like, shure do something.

1901
01:19:27,720 --> 01:19:30,160
Speaker 2: So people like yo, goa listen to my mixtake. I'm

1902
01:19:30,200 --> 01:19:33,480
Speaker 2: like Hey, bro, I ain't really ain't right exactly.

1903
01:19:33,400 --> 01:19:36,120
Speaker 7: Right, but I say I think the other to your point,

1904
01:19:36,120 --> 01:19:38,120
Speaker 7: I think the other thing that's unique about how we

1905
01:19:38,160 --> 01:19:40,040
Speaker 7: did it is that, yeah, it's the blueprint.

1906
01:19:40,680 --> 01:19:42,600
Speaker 4: She does the business, but I do the character and

1907
01:19:42,600 --> 01:19:43,479
Speaker 4: spiritual development.

1908
01:19:43,920 --> 01:19:45,760
Speaker 7: So for me, with everybody that's in our crew, it's like, Yo,

1909
01:19:45,800 --> 01:19:47,760
Speaker 7: Bro'm y'all young, I'm fifty one.

1910
01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:50,800
Speaker 4: I seen a lot of cats with bread come and go.

1911
01:19:51,240 --> 01:19:51,840
Speaker 4: I've seen a.

1912
01:19:51,800 --> 01:19:55,680
Speaker 7: Lot of black people sports business, make a lot of

1913
01:19:55,720 --> 01:19:59,080
Speaker 7: money and lose everything. So my job is, bro, I

1914
01:19:59,120 --> 01:20:01,519
Speaker 7: don't care nothing about you see making money? Can you

1915
01:20:01,560 --> 01:20:04,080
Speaker 7: sustain it for the next fifty sixty years? So that's

1916
01:20:04,120 --> 01:20:07,320
Speaker 7: my job. It's saying, Yo, I know you in this generation,

1917
01:20:07,400 --> 01:20:09,519
Speaker 7: but I'm the og. Some of the moves you make,

1918
01:20:09,600 --> 01:20:11,200
Speaker 7: it like, I'm gonna tell you you don't want to

1919
01:20:11,240 --> 01:20:12,160
Speaker 7: be making those moves.

1920
01:20:12,360 --> 01:20:12,840
Speaker 3: I know this.

1921
01:20:13,160 --> 01:20:15,519
Speaker 7: I know it's trendy and they doing it, but I

1922
01:20:15,600 --> 01:20:19,519
Speaker 7: promise you, bruh. Like y'all from New York, everybody ain't.

1923
01:20:19,840 --> 01:20:23,679
Speaker 7: Everybody ain't for your success, and y'all online so people

1924
01:20:23,800 --> 01:20:25,960
Speaker 7: can watch your moves in a way that when we

1925
01:20:25,960 --> 01:20:27,599
Speaker 7: was coming up, you can't like you don't know where

1926
01:20:27,640 --> 01:20:29,760
Speaker 7: I'm at. You can't watch my mood. You can't So

1927
01:20:29,800 --> 01:20:33,439
Speaker 7: for me, I'm on the Okay, you got it, but

1928
01:20:33,520 --> 01:20:35,080
Speaker 7: my job is to help you to keep it for

1929
01:20:35,080 --> 01:20:37,160
Speaker 7: the next thirty forty fifty years. You feel what I'm saying,

1930
01:20:37,360 --> 01:20:40,160
Speaker 7: So that's the combination. C's gonna show you the blueprint,

1931
01:20:40,160 --> 01:20:41,760
Speaker 7: help you to get it. But I'm like told you

1932
01:20:41,800 --> 01:20:43,880
Speaker 7: need to be in a relationship. You need to be

1933
01:20:43,880 --> 01:20:46,240
Speaker 7: faithful to your wife. You need to figure out what

1934
01:20:46,280 --> 01:20:48,599
Speaker 7: your values and your morals are. You needn't figure out

1935
01:20:48,600 --> 01:20:52,160
Speaker 7: what your non negotiables are. Because let me be real, Bruh,

1936
01:20:52,160 --> 01:20:54,559
Speaker 7: I'm not saying it's easy to be successful, but bruh,

1937
01:20:54,640 --> 01:20:56,880
Speaker 7: we knew like a lot of us first generation money,

1938
01:20:57,320 --> 01:21:00,639
Speaker 7: so you ain't like another community where they fit fifth,

1939
01:21:00,720 --> 01:21:04,720
Speaker 7: sixth generation, and so it's a lot of foundation. Like

1940
01:21:04,800 --> 01:21:06,840
Speaker 7: we don't have a lot of foundation. What's the first

1941
01:21:06,880 --> 01:21:08,720
Speaker 7: thing we do when we get money? We gonna spend it.

1942
01:21:08,800 --> 01:21:09,280
Speaker 4: And I just.

1943
01:21:09,240 --> 01:21:13,000
Speaker 7: Showed my crew, bruh. Food is a trillion dollar industry.

1944
01:21:13,439 --> 01:21:16,080
Speaker 7: Sex is a billion dollar industry. Drugs is a trillion

1945
01:21:16,080 --> 01:21:18,599
Speaker 7: dollar Like you feel me like you make it, they

1946
01:21:18,640 --> 01:21:20,800
Speaker 7: want to take it from you and so it's easy

1947
01:21:20,800 --> 01:21:22,840
Speaker 7: for them to take it from you because it's a

1948
01:21:23,040 --> 01:21:26,240
Speaker 7: business to sell drugs, it's a business to sell food

1949
01:21:26,280 --> 01:21:27,120
Speaker 7: ain't healthy for you.

1950
01:21:27,240 --> 01:21:29,760
Speaker 4: So my job is, hey, y'all sit down with me

1951
01:21:29,840 --> 01:21:30,200
Speaker 4: the OG.

1952
01:21:31,320 --> 01:21:33,320
Speaker 7: I ain't telling y'all what to do, but let me

1953
01:21:33,360 --> 01:21:35,599
Speaker 7: tell you how I started this when I was nineteen.

1954
01:21:35,920 --> 01:21:38,080
Speaker 4: Not perfect, but I ain't. Never fell off.

1955
01:21:38,320 --> 01:21:41,360
Speaker 7: And like you said, bruh, my wife was online one

1956
01:21:41,439 --> 01:21:43,840
Speaker 7: night looking it up and my wife was like, Yo,

1957
01:21:43,960 --> 01:21:44,800
Speaker 7: I'm proud of you, And I.

1958
01:21:44,800 --> 01:21:45,559
Speaker 4: Was like, why you say that.

1959
01:21:45,600 --> 01:21:48,960
Speaker 7: She's like, because since you decided to do this for real,

1960
01:21:49,000 --> 01:21:51,519
Speaker 7: for real, like not just speaking in your twenties, but

1961
01:21:51,640 --> 01:21:54,120
Speaker 7: like since you hit that, had your kids, and like

1962
01:21:54,160 --> 01:21:56,519
Speaker 7: you took you took this thing serious, Like ain't no

1963
01:21:56,600 --> 01:21:59,120
Speaker 7: stuff on you, Like you can't go and go eaty.

1964
01:21:59,160 --> 01:22:03,240
Speaker 7: So I ain't perfect, but I'm like I've watched many men. Yeah,

1965
01:22:03,240 --> 01:22:05,439
Speaker 7: I can name we all can name it. It ain't

1966
01:22:05,640 --> 01:22:06,920
Speaker 7: it ain't more than what I'm saying.

1967
01:22:07,000 --> 01:22:09,320
Speaker 4: You can all name the stuff that take us down.

1968
01:22:09,360 --> 01:22:11,920
Speaker 4: So my thing is white, build with one hand and

1969
01:22:11,960 --> 01:22:13,360
Speaker 4: then tear down with the other one.

1970
01:22:13,439 --> 01:22:14,880
Speaker 7: So if you're gonna get tore it down, let somebod

1971
01:22:14,880 --> 01:22:17,240
Speaker 7: else tear you down, but don't tear your own stuff down.

1972
01:22:17,280 --> 01:22:20,759
Speaker 4: So for us, it's like your Inky family, Toby family.

1973
01:22:20,960 --> 01:22:22,479
Speaker 7: And at any point I can pick up the phone

1974
01:22:22,520 --> 01:22:24,519
Speaker 7: and be like, ininc you're killing the game, but I

1975
01:22:24,560 --> 01:22:25,000
Speaker 7: see something.

1976
01:22:25,040 --> 01:22:26,800
Speaker 4: I want you to focus on this and work on

1977
01:22:26,840 --> 01:22:29,600
Speaker 4: and none of the may like ah, E, don't call me,

1978
01:22:29,680 --> 01:22:31,680
Speaker 4: don't tell me, they like yo, O G.

1979
01:22:31,920 --> 01:22:34,960
Speaker 7: Whatever you say, Like, we own that because we want

1980
01:22:35,000 --> 01:22:37,160
Speaker 7: to keep our foundation solid.

1981
01:22:37,120 --> 01:22:39,160
Speaker 2: And to that point, man, when we talked about ebing

1982
01:22:39,240 --> 01:22:41,080
Speaker 2: number one in the world, I honestly think that's the

1983
01:22:41,120 --> 01:22:44,000
Speaker 2: thing that I'm most proud of. Like bro, like not

1984
01:22:44,040 --> 01:22:49,160
Speaker 2: to give ourselves kudos, but several multi millionaires, not just us,

1985
01:22:49,479 --> 01:22:51,720
Speaker 2: have come under your like and so when you talk

1986
01:22:51,920 --> 01:22:53,720
Speaker 2: no disrespect when you say Tony, I don't know who

1987
01:22:53,760 --> 01:22:55,719
Speaker 2: Tony Robbins, Like, what's his tree?

1988
01:22:56,040 --> 01:22:57,080
Speaker 4: Who else do you like?

1989
01:22:57,120 --> 01:23:00,320
Speaker 2: Oh, he's like you just named off Toby Alex, Like

1990
01:23:01,360 --> 01:23:04,479
Speaker 2: these people came up under us and now our building kingdoms.

1991
01:23:04,720 --> 01:23:07,519
Speaker 2: So when you see like the compound effect is just

1992
01:23:07,560 --> 01:23:08,920
Speaker 2: being crazy, you know what I mean? The only one

1993
01:23:08,960 --> 01:23:11,240
Speaker 2: that you said and he gonna kill mem said Ma

1994
01:23:11,520 --> 01:23:14,559
Speaker 2: was already a multi millionaire before you took I don't.

1995
01:23:14,560 --> 01:23:15,519
Speaker 2: I don't want to say, but.

1996
01:23:17,280 --> 01:23:18,080
Speaker 3: He did.

1997
01:23:19,800 --> 01:23:22,000
Speaker 2: I ain't one of these little sus you raised up.

1998
01:23:22,200 --> 01:23:29,439
Speaker 2: It became been a millionaires since. Ye, yeah, absolutely, of

1999
01:23:29,479 --> 01:23:31,400
Speaker 2: course you know what I'm saying. So y'all hear Mare's

2000
01:23:31,400 --> 01:23:33,439
Speaker 2: story at some point. But Mare has one of the

2001
01:23:33,439 --> 01:23:35,400
Speaker 2: craziest stories ever. But he's a part of the fan.

2002
01:23:35,479 --> 01:23:38,240
Speaker 2: But of course, yes, Mare, we know you were a

2003
01:23:38,280 --> 01:23:40,160
Speaker 2: millionaire several times over before.

2004
01:23:39,920 --> 01:23:40,600
Speaker 3: We mentioned.

2005
01:23:42,439 --> 01:23:46,759
Speaker 8: Before the scale standpoint obviously as your building. Yeah, answer

2006
01:23:46,760 --> 01:23:49,640
Speaker 8: everything too, So the merse becomes thing trade barking. I

2007
01:23:49,640 --> 01:23:53,280
Speaker 8: see obviously the logo, the mixtapes. He had the books too,

2008
01:23:53,439 --> 01:23:56,600
Speaker 8: so before obviously you know you is now but were

2009
01:23:56,640 --> 01:23:57,840
Speaker 8: the three bus that came fire?

2010
01:23:58,080 --> 01:23:59,559
Speaker 3: Question? What made you decide?

2011
01:23:59,600 --> 01:24:01,880
Speaker 8: All right, I'm doing this from the brother stand point,

2012
01:24:01,920 --> 01:24:04,400
Speaker 8: but now here's the actual literashire that goes along with it.

2013
01:24:04,720 --> 01:24:06,080
Speaker 3: Yes, go for it.

2014
01:24:06,479 --> 01:24:10,160
Speaker 7: I'm just saying mc hammer, I'm just saying master p.

2015
01:24:10,800 --> 01:24:12,840
Speaker 7: They left, they had gave us the blueprint do it out.

2016
01:24:12,840 --> 01:24:15,280
Speaker 7: The trump like, don't go with nobody because you're gonna

2017
01:24:15,280 --> 01:24:17,679
Speaker 7: lose your bread. So the first three was like, don't

2018
01:24:17,720 --> 01:24:20,479
Speaker 7: nobody know me? I go with a publishing deal. I'm

2019
01:24:20,520 --> 01:24:22,479
Speaker 7: not gonna get an advantage, Like it's gonna be a

2020
01:24:22,479 --> 01:24:25,559
Speaker 7: disadvantaged So I'm like, I trust me, I trust him,

2021
01:24:25,920 --> 01:24:27,080
Speaker 7: I trust my garage.

2022
01:24:27,240 --> 01:24:28,000
Speaker 4: We took all the.

2023
01:24:27,880 --> 01:24:29,840
Speaker 7: Cars out the garage, fill that joke up with a

2024
01:24:29,960 --> 01:24:32,320
Speaker 7: hundred thousand books and we did what we had to

2025
01:24:32,400 --> 01:24:35,000
Speaker 7: do to sell a hundred thousand copies of the first

2026
01:24:35,040 --> 01:24:35,879
Speaker 7: Secret to Success.

2027
01:24:35,920 --> 01:24:38,200
Speaker 4: I signed every last one. So for us, it was

2028
01:24:38,240 --> 01:24:40,479
Speaker 4: a money move. It was like, he need a salary,

2029
01:24:40,720 --> 01:24:41,839
Speaker 4: Karl need a salary.

2030
01:24:41,960 --> 01:24:43,080
Speaker 3: So these books.

2031
01:24:42,920 --> 01:24:46,599
Speaker 7: Twenty nine ninety five times a hundred thousand books.

2032
01:24:46,360 --> 01:24:47,240
Speaker 4: It's gonna give us some need.

2033
01:24:47,360 --> 01:24:49,720
Speaker 2: But to even speak before that to your question, we

2034
01:24:49,800 --> 01:24:52,680
Speaker 2: listened to our audience. Yeah, So he was doing TGIM

2035
01:24:52,720 --> 01:24:55,960
Speaker 2: every week and everybody was like, we need the book. Oh,

2036
01:24:56,240 --> 01:24:58,760
Speaker 2: when we're gonna release the shirts. We was like, look,

2037
01:24:58,920 --> 01:25:00,920
Speaker 2: they're ask him for a shout out. Dave Shan's you

2038
01:25:00,920 --> 01:25:02,760
Speaker 2: know another one under the tree that we didn't mention.

2039
01:25:02,840 --> 01:25:04,960
Speaker 2: But he did our first shirts. You know what I'm saying.

2040
01:25:05,000 --> 01:25:06,360
Speaker 2: We did the shirt design. When you want to succeed,

2041
01:25:06,479 --> 01:25:08,120
Speaker 2: but you want to breathe. We let them joints go

2042
01:25:08,439 --> 01:25:10,320
Speaker 2: and they went crazy. But I think a lot of

2043
01:25:10,320 --> 01:25:13,160
Speaker 2: people they get to moving before they listen to their audience,

2044
01:25:13,240 --> 01:25:14,519
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, Like, and then you end

2045
01:25:14,640 --> 01:25:16,880
Speaker 2: up creating stuff that they don't want. So we were

2046
01:25:16,920 --> 01:25:19,400
Speaker 2: literally we gave the remember the freemium model that I

2047
01:25:19,439 --> 01:25:21,400
Speaker 2: talked about, We gave it out free and then they

2048
01:25:21,400 --> 01:25:23,800
Speaker 2: were like, okay, and they were like, Yo, where's the book? Well,

2049
01:25:23,800 --> 01:25:24,400
Speaker 2: where's the shirt?

2050
01:25:24,520 --> 01:25:25,040
Speaker 3: Can I get? Oh?

2051
01:25:25,040 --> 01:25:26,519
Speaker 9: I seet got the hat? Can we get the hat?

2052
01:25:26,560 --> 01:25:27,200
Speaker 9: You know what I'm saying.

2053
01:25:27,240 --> 01:25:29,120
Speaker 2: So it was just really listening to the market and

2054
01:25:29,120 --> 01:25:31,360
Speaker 2: what the market was demanding and then creating that product

2055
01:25:31,400 --> 01:25:31,880
Speaker 2: from that.

2056
01:25:31,840 --> 01:25:35,320
Speaker 4: You know, and the market demanded this what they called

2057
01:25:35,439 --> 01:25:37,680
Speaker 4: like with a check. I'm like, man, you gonna get

2058
01:25:37,680 --> 01:25:38,679
Speaker 4: me a check to write a book?

2059
01:25:39,040 --> 01:25:39,360
Speaker 3: Wow?

2060
01:25:39,600 --> 01:25:40,200
Speaker 9: You know what I'm saying.

2061
01:25:40,560 --> 01:25:42,840
Speaker 3: This is our first major talk about you.

2062
01:25:43,600 --> 01:25:48,120
Speaker 2: We're on the label now, you know what I'm saying, Right, Bill, you.

2063
01:25:48,360 --> 01:25:48,960
Speaker 3: Know what I'm saying.

2064
01:25:49,040 --> 01:25:51,320
Speaker 2: We signed now, you know what I'm saying, kind of

2065
01:25:51,920 --> 01:25:54,439
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, joint venture.

2066
01:25:55,680 --> 01:25:58,240
Speaker 4: He got the turn down, Like where you go it? Yeah,

2067
01:25:58,280 --> 01:26:00,800
Speaker 4: it's a financial that world.

2068
01:26:01,400 --> 01:26:03,639
Speaker 6: So all right, So what's what's the deal with this book?

2069
01:26:03,680 --> 01:26:07,639
Speaker 6: And what made you after doing three books independent, having success,

2070
01:26:07,680 --> 01:26:09,960
Speaker 6: making money. What made you want to say, Okay, this

2071
01:26:10,080 --> 01:26:10,880
Speaker 6: time we want to do it.

2072
01:26:10,880 --> 01:26:11,760
Speaker 3: You know what turns out?

2073
01:26:11,880 --> 01:26:12,559
Speaker 4: Turns out shout.

2074
01:26:12,640 --> 01:26:12,880
Speaker 3: They don't.

2075
01:26:12,920 --> 01:26:15,120
Speaker 2: They don't let you count like New York Times bestseller

2076
01:26:15,160 --> 01:26:16,000
Speaker 2: when you do it out the trump.

2077
01:26:16,600 --> 01:26:17,759
Speaker 4: They want real numbers.

2078
01:26:17,760 --> 01:26:18,320
Speaker 9: You know what I'm saying.

2079
01:26:18,600 --> 01:26:21,000
Speaker 7: I'm like, look, I'm telling you we so I'm telling

2080
01:26:21,560 --> 01:26:23,679
Speaker 7: I got proof. They was like, man, if you don't

2081
01:26:23,720 --> 01:26:26,720
Speaker 7: get your little black but out of here. So I

2082
01:26:26,760 --> 01:26:30,479
Speaker 7: was like, okay, So anyway, I told E this time, bro,

2083
01:26:30,680 --> 01:26:32,640
Speaker 7: let's get like that milestone.

2084
01:26:32,640 --> 01:26:34,639
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. Like, we've accomplished a lot.

2085
01:26:34,920 --> 01:26:37,120
Speaker 2: We have not had a New York Times bestseller, right,

2086
01:26:37,160 --> 01:26:39,280
Speaker 2: and like I look at E in the space and

2087
01:26:39,400 --> 01:26:41,200
Speaker 2: you know, you see all these authors and stuff like that.

2088
01:26:41,240 --> 01:26:43,240
Speaker 2: And again we did books that did tremendous and they

2089
01:26:43,240 --> 01:26:46,040
Speaker 2: were great for us financially, and you know, we made

2090
01:26:46,080 --> 01:26:48,120
Speaker 2: a lot of money and you know, the informations out

2091
01:26:48,120 --> 01:26:50,640
Speaker 2: there and it's fantastic. But this time we wanted to

2092
01:26:50,680 --> 01:26:53,360
Speaker 2: go legit so that we could have that out there

2093
01:26:53,400 --> 01:26:56,360
Speaker 2: and have another stripe under ET's belt. As I mean,

2094
01:26:56,360 --> 01:26:58,000
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be real as you you know when we

2095
01:26:58,040 --> 01:27:01,640
Speaker 2: got the PhD, bad went up when he kind of

2096
01:27:01,720 --> 01:27:04,160
Speaker 2: you know, started going viral, and the bag went up.

2097
01:27:04,360 --> 01:27:06,760
Speaker 3: When we get this one right here, bag going up.

2098
01:27:07,040 --> 01:27:09,439
Speaker 9: I mean, you know what I'm saying, it's another not

2099
01:27:09,640 --> 01:27:11,519
Speaker 9: in the bag. I mean, why not?

2100
01:27:11,560 --> 01:27:12,160
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

2101
01:27:12,200 --> 01:27:15,599
Speaker 2: Again it is and then and then this is dope

2102
01:27:15,640 --> 01:27:19,360
Speaker 2: because the book is so personal this time. I mean,

2103
01:27:19,400 --> 01:27:21,240
Speaker 2: we're sharing some stuff and are we allowed to talk

2104
01:27:21,240 --> 01:27:24,559
Speaker 2: about it? Ain't all been rosy we had you know,

2105
01:27:24,680 --> 01:27:26,799
Speaker 2: he and I have had our it's all been rosy.

2106
01:27:27,080 --> 01:27:28,960
Speaker 2: I'm the one that's got the issue. Now I'm the

2107
01:27:29,000 --> 01:27:30,640
Speaker 2: one to grow up without the dad, you know what

2108
01:27:30,680 --> 01:27:32,320
Speaker 2: I'm saying. So I had this stuff to work through.

2109
01:27:32,439 --> 01:27:34,920
Speaker 2: So we we get we get deep about like some

2110
01:27:35,000 --> 01:27:37,479
Speaker 2: things like everybody looking like okay, But we've had our moments,

2111
01:27:37,520 --> 01:27:38,680
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. Like there was there was

2112
01:27:38,720 --> 01:27:41,360
Speaker 2: a moment in time where he was like wondering if

2113
01:27:41,360 --> 01:27:43,320
Speaker 2: I was leaving him, like he thought I was out.

2114
01:27:43,360 --> 01:27:45,920
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying now, Again he got daddy issues.

2115
01:27:45,960 --> 01:27:46,360
Speaker 3: I don't.

2116
01:27:46,479 --> 01:27:47,960
Speaker 2: I grew up with the best dad in the world,

2117
01:27:48,040 --> 01:27:50,960
Speaker 2: so I was secure. But he felt like okay, like

2118
01:27:51,000 --> 01:27:53,639
Speaker 2: I'm so long story short, I'll let y'all read the book.

2119
01:27:53,640 --> 01:27:55,639
Speaker 2: But I start getting ahead of myself. When the money

2120
01:27:55,680 --> 01:27:57,160
Speaker 2: start coming, I was like, all right, cool, I know

2121
01:27:57,200 --> 01:27:58,760
Speaker 2: how to do this now, so I'm about to just

2122
01:27:58,760 --> 01:28:02,000
Speaker 2: go crazy. But you got to understand something. He was

2123
01:28:02,000 --> 01:28:05,439
Speaker 2: still traveling and speaking. I won't go into no speaking events.

2124
01:28:05,479 --> 01:28:07,800
Speaker 2: I wasn't sure like he had it. It's like, bro,

2125
01:28:08,200 --> 01:28:10,840
Speaker 2: you literally saying fifty thousand and they're like, okay, here's

2126
01:28:10,840 --> 01:28:12,599
Speaker 2: the It's like, there's nothing for me to do like that,

2127
01:28:12,640 --> 01:28:14,519
Speaker 2: you know, other than come and be a moral support.

2128
01:28:14,560 --> 01:28:17,080
Speaker 3: Which so so that so that was hard for you

2129
01:28:17,160 --> 01:28:20,240
Speaker 3: because he's getting on the linlight. He's a star.

2130
01:28:20,760 --> 01:28:22,880
Speaker 6: He's going places, and you in the office just right,

2131
01:28:23,000 --> 01:28:26,680
Speaker 6: and eventually you want to at least be in the room.

2132
01:28:27,280 --> 01:28:29,800
Speaker 3: No, he never wanted to know. No, I never wanted

2133
01:28:29,800 --> 01:28:29,920
Speaker 3: to do.

2134
01:28:30,240 --> 01:28:34,040
Speaker 7: I want because I felt like we built it and

2135
01:28:34,080 --> 01:28:34,759
Speaker 7: he ain't nowhere.

2136
01:28:34,880 --> 01:28:35,880
Speaker 3: So he was.

2137
01:28:35,920 --> 01:28:38,519
Speaker 2: So he is one of the most relational humans you'll

2138
01:28:38,560 --> 01:28:41,920
Speaker 2: ever meet in your life. Like, bro, I just kind

2139
01:28:41,920 --> 01:28:44,040
Speaker 2: of be by myself, like I'm good, like he wanted

2140
01:28:44,040 --> 01:28:46,160
Speaker 2: to like if he comes, he like he want to

2141
01:28:46,160 --> 01:28:48,519
Speaker 2: do breakfast, He want to do lunch, he wanted to

2142
01:28:48,520 --> 01:28:49,640
Speaker 2: do dinner.

2143
01:28:50,680 --> 01:28:52,479
Speaker 9: Look, he want to, he want he want to.

2144
01:28:52,520 --> 01:28:55,080
Speaker 2: He want to sit out on the balcony and talk

2145
01:28:55,120 --> 01:28:58,200
Speaker 2: about our dreams all day. And like I understood that.

2146
01:28:58,280 --> 01:29:00,200
Speaker 2: And for a time I was there. I was that

2147
01:29:00,320 --> 01:29:02,479
Speaker 2: for him. And then when he started going out and

2148
01:29:02,520 --> 01:29:05,960
Speaker 2: again you got to understand something. We ran hard to

2149
01:29:06,000 --> 01:29:07,519
Speaker 2: build the brand, and then it got to a point

2150
01:29:07,520 --> 01:29:09,880
Speaker 2: where it was like we got every company in the

2151
01:29:09,880 --> 01:29:12,280
Speaker 2: world called how many gigs did you turn down last year?

2152
01:29:12,479 --> 01:29:13,200
Speaker 3: Well it was one year.

2153
01:29:13,240 --> 01:29:15,240
Speaker 4: I turned on a thousand opportunity.

2154
01:29:14,840 --> 01:29:17,240
Speaker 2: A thousand, and he talking about big bags, And so

2155
01:29:17,560 --> 01:29:19,120
Speaker 2: that was my job is to get us hot.

2156
01:29:19,200 --> 01:29:21,320
Speaker 4: That a whole bunch of being inkies though you know

2157
01:29:21,320 --> 01:29:21,760
Speaker 4: what I'm saying.

2158
01:29:21,800 --> 01:29:26,679
Speaker 2: So again, my job was to get us to that level.

2159
01:29:26,720 --> 01:29:29,120
Speaker 2: And once we got almost worked myself out of a job,

2160
01:29:29,120 --> 01:29:31,960
Speaker 2: if that makes sense. So I said to myself, Look,

2161
01:29:32,439 --> 01:29:34,320
Speaker 2: this can't be the only way we feed our families

2162
01:29:34,360 --> 01:29:35,840
Speaker 2: is when E get on stage and talk.

2163
01:29:36,479 --> 01:29:37,720
Speaker 3: Even the books and stuff is cool.

2164
01:29:37,760 --> 01:29:39,599
Speaker 2: But if he decided he done, or he don't want

2165
01:29:39,600 --> 01:29:42,040
Speaker 2: to talk no more, all the products in the merchant ain't.

2166
01:29:41,880 --> 01:29:42,519
Speaker 3: The sweet anyway.

2167
01:29:42,600 --> 01:29:44,439
Speaker 2: Jordan, the only one to be able to retire for

2168
01:29:44,479 --> 01:29:46,799
Speaker 2: twenty years and still keeping stuff hot. So I couldn't

2169
01:29:46,800 --> 01:29:48,720
Speaker 2: guarantee that we was gonna eat off this forever. So

2170
01:29:48,800 --> 01:29:50,960
Speaker 2: what did I do. I started going out and building

2171
01:29:51,000 --> 01:29:53,040
Speaker 2: other businesses. So we got into the real estate, we

2172
01:29:53,080 --> 01:29:55,559
Speaker 2: got into the solar, and I was telling him about it,

2173
01:29:56,360 --> 01:29:58,880
Speaker 2: but you know, eat old school. So he like, I

2174
01:29:58,880 --> 01:30:00,920
Speaker 2: ain't seen no check. He didn't know that we were

2175
01:30:01,000 --> 01:30:03,200
Speaker 2: just dumping the money right back in. We was investing

2176
01:30:03,280 --> 01:30:04,280
Speaker 2: the money.

2177
01:30:04,840 --> 01:30:06,760
Speaker 7: But again not in a bad way, but they were

2178
01:30:06,800 --> 01:30:09,200
Speaker 7: just going. They were just getting the movie moving. So

2179
01:30:09,240 --> 01:30:11,960
Speaker 7: you gotta understand, I'm used to every we talk about everything.

2180
01:30:12,360 --> 01:30:15,479
Speaker 7: Now they doing business and we not talking about nothing.

2181
01:30:15,479 --> 01:30:18,840
Speaker 7: But I literally got e on everything a question communication.

2182
01:30:20,280 --> 01:30:23,080
Speaker 2: And again because because he's so relational and he see

2183
01:30:23,160 --> 01:30:25,599
Speaker 2: me now making all these moves over here, he like, see,

2184
01:30:25,640 --> 01:30:27,439
Speaker 2: ain't been in none of my speaking gigs, and were

2185
01:30:27,439 --> 01:30:29,080
Speaker 2: talking on the phone every day. Don't get it twisted,

2186
01:30:29,200 --> 01:30:31,360
Speaker 2: my son, godfather, we bro we all day with it.

2187
01:30:31,479 --> 01:30:34,599
Speaker 2: But again he like you, he's that's his love lanes.

2188
01:30:34,640 --> 01:30:36,479
Speaker 2: He wants you to be like with me, like roll

2189
01:30:36,479 --> 01:30:38,559
Speaker 2: out with me. And I wasn't doing that. I was

2190
01:30:38,560 --> 01:30:41,960
Speaker 2: trying to go build those other things. Yeah, And I

2191
01:30:42,080 --> 01:30:43,919
Speaker 2: was like, bro, I told I. I was like, bruh.

2192
01:30:44,120 --> 01:30:46,040
Speaker 2: And so we finally, when you know, it all came

2193
01:30:46,080 --> 01:30:47,960
Speaker 2: to a head. I was like, Bro, you do understand

2194
01:30:48,000 --> 01:30:50,400
Speaker 2: I'm doing this for you, Bro, Like I'm trying to

2195
01:30:50,400 --> 01:30:52,160
Speaker 2: make sure that you don't have to get up there

2196
01:30:52,200 --> 01:30:54,840
Speaker 2: and be no caricature of yourself at eighty years old

2197
01:30:54,840 --> 01:30:56,439
Speaker 2: talking about when you want to succeed, Like, Bro, you

2198
01:30:56,439 --> 01:30:58,160
Speaker 2: ain't got to do that. I'm gonna make sure and

2199
01:30:58,280 --> 01:31:00,160
Speaker 2: and I have gotten us to the point right now

2200
01:31:00,320 --> 01:31:02,120
Speaker 2: where he don't ever have to give another speech again

2201
01:31:02,200 --> 01:31:03,840
Speaker 2: and he will be set for life. I'm talking about

2202
01:31:03,880 --> 01:31:05,680
Speaker 2: like not just set, like I don't have to do

2203
01:31:05,720 --> 01:31:08,000
Speaker 2: nothing like go on the yacht, cruise the world, do

2204
01:31:08,040 --> 01:31:10,000
Speaker 2: what you want to do, set. And that was important

2205
01:31:10,040 --> 01:31:12,080
Speaker 2: to me because I saw other people who when they

2206
01:31:12,120 --> 01:31:16,360
Speaker 2: were the sole breadwinner of the family, NFL players, NBA players, boxers,

2207
01:31:16,360 --> 01:31:20,320
Speaker 2: et cetera, what happened when the main one go down? Everybody, Bro,

2208
01:31:20,880 --> 01:31:22,519
Speaker 2: it literally is a trickle down effect. And I'm like,

2209
01:31:22,560 --> 01:31:25,240
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna let that happen to us. My communication

2210
01:31:25,840 --> 01:31:28,120
Speaker 2: to him about what I was doing in how.

2211
01:31:27,960 --> 01:31:30,040
Speaker 7: In my vision it wasn't just communicating. Bro told you

2212
01:31:30,160 --> 01:31:32,640
Speaker 7: Monsle King, he got about twelve people running with him.

2213
01:31:33,200 --> 01:31:37,200
Speaker 7: You see Marla Kay, jesse Jah, jos Will and you ya,

2214
01:31:37,680 --> 01:31:40,160
Speaker 7: all of them, Like he got a crew like they want.

2215
01:31:40,320 --> 01:31:42,640
Speaker 7: When he got shot in Midmith, they was on this

2216
01:31:42,680 --> 01:31:45,599
Speaker 7: porch with my man. So that was just my Malcolm

2217
01:31:45,680 --> 01:31:49,040
Speaker 7: like boom, it's about five hundred million, like blah blah blah.

2218
01:31:49,080 --> 01:31:54,000
Speaker 7: So for me, success looked like a village, a community,

2219
01:31:54,360 --> 01:31:57,080
Speaker 7: a group. It didn't look like we gotta separate a

2220
01:31:57,080 --> 01:31:59,680
Speaker 7: little bit and worry about the future, you know what

2221
01:31:59,720 --> 01:32:02,880
Speaker 7: I'm saying. Like we went on that, so praise God.

2222
01:32:02,960 --> 01:32:05,400
Speaker 7: My wife like him. She's like, he'll never got called

2223
01:32:05,439 --> 01:32:07,320
Speaker 7: if he's doing all that to make sure we end

2224
01:32:07,400 --> 01:32:09,160
Speaker 7: up egot. Let him do his thing. But for me,

2225
01:32:09,200 --> 01:32:11,160
Speaker 7: as you read through the book, we're just sharing with

2226
01:32:11,200 --> 01:32:14,559
Speaker 7: you the blueprint on Yes, we blew up.

2227
01:32:14,680 --> 01:32:16,919
Speaker 4: But at the same time, there were some other things.

2228
01:32:16,680 --> 01:32:18,960
Speaker 3: That I had to deal with in order to get

2229
01:32:18,960 --> 01:32:19,519
Speaker 3: to Like dog.

2230
01:32:19,680 --> 01:32:21,639
Speaker 2: I literally when we had the conversation, I was looking

2231
01:32:21,680 --> 01:32:24,280
Speaker 2: at him like, brou are you serious right now? Like Bro,

2232
01:32:24,680 --> 01:32:27,280
Speaker 2: like bruh, I've been here, Like I ain't flinched, not

2233
01:32:27,479 --> 01:32:30,400
Speaker 2: one time, I'm talking about cats coming in, offering bread,

2234
01:32:30,520 --> 01:32:33,000
Speaker 2: trying to get me out, the equation coming to him, all,

2235
01:32:33,040 --> 01:32:34,720
Speaker 2: we'll give you ten million dollars. You just got to

2236
01:32:34,720 --> 01:32:36,679
Speaker 2: get rid of cj ax, him out as a partner,

2237
01:32:36,840 --> 01:32:38,400
Speaker 2: all of this other stuff. Bro, I've been here the

2238
01:32:38,439 --> 01:32:40,680
Speaker 2: whole time, ain't flinched one time. So I felt like

2239
01:32:40,720 --> 01:32:44,200
Speaker 2: I had earned enough good credit for him to know. Okay,

2240
01:32:44,240 --> 01:32:45,920
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what's going on, but I'm sure.

2241
01:32:45,840 --> 01:32:46,760
Speaker 3: She ain't on. He did.

2242
01:32:47,000 --> 01:32:49,960
Speaker 7: My daddy had been there, yeah, right right right he did.

2243
01:32:50,120 --> 01:32:51,800
Speaker 7: But you know when you daddy ain't in your life.

2244
01:32:52,840 --> 01:32:54,400
Speaker 3: But I was hurt. Though I told my wife I

2245
01:32:54,439 --> 01:32:55,719
Speaker 3: was hurt. I was like brouh.

2246
01:32:55,840 --> 01:32:58,240
Speaker 2: I was like, come on, bruh, like you know me

2247
01:32:58,840 --> 01:33:01,800
Speaker 2: and you and again like you know how I feel

2248
01:33:01,840 --> 01:33:03,759
Speaker 2: about money, You know how I feel about our families.

2249
01:33:03,760 --> 01:33:05,599
Speaker 2: You know how I feel about your son, like my son,

2250
01:33:05,640 --> 01:33:07,679
Speaker 2: my son, like your son, like we family for real.

2251
01:33:08,080 --> 01:33:12,080
Speaker 2: But again I realized that my lack of communication allowed

2252
01:33:12,120 --> 01:33:14,479
Speaker 2: that that you know, that devil on that shoulder on

2253
01:33:14,520 --> 01:33:17,680
Speaker 2: each shoulder, to be like, oh see see moving on without.

2254
01:33:17,439 --> 01:33:17,920
Speaker 3: Do you think?

2255
01:33:18,320 --> 01:33:20,240
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, you experienced different things and you

2256
01:33:20,320 --> 01:33:22,640
Speaker 6: watch movies, and all of the movies is the same. Like,

2257
01:33:22,640 --> 01:33:25,360
Speaker 6: do you think that money and success breeds to paranoia,

2258
01:33:25,479 --> 01:33:28,200
Speaker 6: because that's why you kind of become paranoia after a while,

2259
01:33:28,200 --> 01:33:30,599
Speaker 6: where it's like one person crosses you then you don't

2260
01:33:30,640 --> 01:33:33,000
Speaker 6: really know and you're looking at your your brother eventually

2261
01:33:33,080 --> 01:33:35,639
Speaker 6: like you know what I'm saying, you're looking at him.

2262
01:33:35,920 --> 01:33:38,880
Speaker 7: No question and not him like he don't think that

2263
01:33:38,920 --> 01:33:41,559
Speaker 7: with me. But again, like you said, just me and

2264
01:33:41,600 --> 01:33:43,800
Speaker 7: we'll talk about this movie. But New Jack City, that's.

2265
01:33:43,680 --> 01:33:48,160
Speaker 9: What you jacksony real thing, you.

2266
01:33:50,200 --> 01:33:52,120
Speaker 3: Like, a real thing, you know.

2267
01:33:52,360 --> 01:33:55,920
Speaker 7: And so for me, yeah, so for me, I was

2268
01:33:56,200 --> 01:33:58,800
Speaker 7: But the cool thing about it is my morals and

2269
01:33:58,880 --> 01:34:02,160
Speaker 7: my beliefs and I relationships was the thing that had

2270
01:34:02,280 --> 01:34:05,679
Speaker 7: me go ae. And it was funny because I talked

2271
01:34:05,680 --> 01:34:07,840
Speaker 7: to my wife and my wife was like, oh, you know,

2272
01:34:07,960 --> 01:34:09,639
Speaker 7: you wrong, And I was like, why would you say

2273
01:34:09,680 --> 01:34:11,439
Speaker 7: I'm wrong? Because like, you don't even know that whatever.

2274
01:34:11,600 --> 01:34:14,360
Speaker 7: She's like, you wrong because for two weeks you kept

2275
01:34:14,360 --> 01:34:15,960
Speaker 7: it to yourself. You don't never keep nothing from ce,

2276
01:34:16,479 --> 01:34:18,360
Speaker 7: so why would you keep it to yourself? So it

2277
01:34:18,400 --> 01:34:20,519
Speaker 7: ain't nothing wrong with you thinking that you're human, but

2278
01:34:20,640 --> 01:34:22,800
Speaker 7: it is something wrong with you don't keep nothing from him,

2279
01:34:22,800 --> 01:34:24,439
Speaker 7: so why would you keep You don't know what they

2280
01:34:24,560 --> 01:34:26,479
Speaker 7: doing from him? You know what I'm saying, Because now it,

2281
01:34:26,560 --> 01:34:28,240
Speaker 7: for real was just us. So now you got Mall

2282
01:34:28,280 --> 01:34:30,800
Speaker 7: in the picture, you got Josh in the picture. So

2283
01:34:30,880 --> 01:34:31,719
Speaker 7: I'm seeing them.

2284
01:34:31,600 --> 01:34:35,800
Speaker 4: Together, and for me, it's we always together. So it

2285
01:34:35,840 --> 01:34:37,760
Speaker 4: ain't like the four of us. It's the three of them,

2286
01:34:37,800 --> 01:34:39,360
Speaker 4: and I'm not in it. But it's the three of

2287
01:34:39,439 --> 01:34:40,200
Speaker 4: them working.

2288
01:34:40,000 --> 01:34:43,560
Speaker 7: On here what I'm saying. But he's saying relational, so

2289
01:34:43,720 --> 01:34:45,920
Speaker 7: I'm not with them. But every time I look up,

2290
01:34:45,960 --> 01:34:48,400
Speaker 7: they all together and they talking, and I'm like, man,

2291
01:34:48,439 --> 01:34:50,640
Speaker 7: I wonder what's going on. It was so bad I

2292
01:34:50,640 --> 01:34:53,080
Speaker 7: didn't even talk to my wife about it. That's how

2293
01:34:53,080 --> 01:34:55,080
Speaker 7: I knew something was wrong. I never talked to her.

2294
01:34:55,240 --> 01:34:55,960
Speaker 7: She's like, what's wrong?

2295
01:34:56,120 --> 01:34:58,560
Speaker 3: And I was like nothing. She's like, who you talking to?

2296
01:34:59,120 --> 01:35:01,880
Speaker 7: Like I see your swag, like you talked to see

2297
01:35:02,080 --> 01:35:03,640
Speaker 7: for a couple of minutes, but you ain't go in

2298
01:35:03,960 --> 01:35:06,280
Speaker 7: like what's wrong? And I'm like, what's nothing. She's like,

2299
01:35:06,320 --> 01:35:09,240
Speaker 7: come on, nah, that's your guy. Y'all ain't got that kick?

2300
01:35:09,400 --> 01:35:09,760
Speaker 3: What's up?

2301
01:35:10,000 --> 01:35:11,479
Speaker 4: And I was like, man, I said he was?

2302
01:35:11,600 --> 01:35:13,479
Speaker 7: And I seen him and I don't know, so I

2303
01:35:13,520 --> 01:35:15,759
Speaker 7: ain't saying nothing because I don't know. And she's like, Okay,

2304
01:35:15,800 --> 01:35:18,320
Speaker 7: it's cool, but go say something. And so I went

2305
01:35:18,360 --> 01:35:19,720
Speaker 7: and talked to him, and that's when he was kind

2306
01:35:19,760 --> 01:35:22,240
Speaker 7: of like, you know, he kind of went hard, you

2307
01:35:22,280 --> 01:35:25,759
Speaker 7: know what I'm saying. And I was like, hey, point, well, taken,

2308
01:35:26,080 --> 01:35:27,800
Speaker 7: I'm good. You ain't never got to worry about me.

2309
01:35:27,880 --> 01:35:31,200
Speaker 7: Thinking now, our moves didn't change. I didn't switch game up.

2310
01:35:31,479 --> 01:35:33,720
Speaker 7: I just in my mind was just like yo, I

2311
01:35:33,760 --> 01:35:34,559
Speaker 7: don't know, and it.

2312
01:35:34,640 --> 01:35:35,360
Speaker 4: Was just different.

2313
01:35:35,760 --> 01:35:38,680
Speaker 7: It was like, imagine you always working with your quarterback,

2314
01:35:39,160 --> 01:35:40,920
Speaker 7: and then now you got to you got a new

2315
01:35:41,000 --> 01:35:43,439
Speaker 7: quarter new ride receiver, a new running back, and now.

2316
01:35:43,400 --> 01:35:45,120
Speaker 3: He telling it. You gotta go. You don't gotta make

2317
01:35:45,160 --> 01:35:45,400
Speaker 3: it mess.

2318
01:35:45,439 --> 01:35:47,639
Speaker 2: You can put it to y'all like if y'all y'all

2319
01:35:47,680 --> 01:35:50,000
Speaker 2: built this together, and the imagine the opportunities start running

2320
01:35:50,000 --> 01:35:51,400
Speaker 2: it and you go that way and you go that way.

2321
01:35:51,680 --> 01:35:54,320
Speaker 2: Y'all still own the company together, but it's it's not

2322
01:35:54,479 --> 01:35:56,400
Speaker 2: the same in terms of sitting down and doing it

2323
01:35:56,560 --> 01:35:58,360
Speaker 2: like this. And I was okay with that.

2324
01:35:58,800 --> 01:36:01,760
Speaker 3: He wasn't. I'm saying so, and that we just had

2325
01:36:01,800 --> 01:36:04,719
Speaker 3: to talk the other day. It's about having an honest conversation.

2326
01:36:04,840 --> 01:36:09,040
Speaker 9: They don't have to be uncomfortable, right every every every conversation.

2327
01:36:09,200 --> 01:36:12,639
Speaker 2: That's not about building your life, character development Jesus Christ

2328
01:36:13,040 --> 01:36:13,800
Speaker 2: and changing people.

2329
01:36:13,880 --> 01:36:18,000
Speaker 3: Life is uncomfortable. Used to be yeah, not no more,

2330
01:36:18,240 --> 01:36:18,519
Speaker 3: like Bro.

2331
01:36:18,680 --> 01:36:21,400
Speaker 2: We used to be in meetings and like, Bro, like

2332
01:36:21,960 --> 01:36:24,280
Speaker 2: I would be the dame dash of the like, especially

2333
01:36:24,320 --> 01:36:26,479
Speaker 2: when it was broke. I had an attitude like I

2334
01:36:26,600 --> 01:36:28,439
Speaker 2: used to be pissed at everybody, and I would be

2335
01:36:28,520 --> 01:36:30,240
Speaker 2: going off and he would seeing me, like get to

2336
01:36:30,320 --> 01:36:31,960
Speaker 2: that level. He would be so uncomfortable he'd just walk

2337
01:36:32,000 --> 01:36:33,120
Speaker 2: out the meeting like he was.

2338
01:36:33,200 --> 01:36:35,000
Speaker 3: Like cool by y'all had changed?

2339
01:36:36,560 --> 01:36:38,519
Speaker 4: No coo, bile, y'all in the room, no more.

2340
01:36:38,720 --> 01:36:39,720
Speaker 3: I'm out.

2341
01:36:40,520 --> 01:36:41,640
Speaker 4: They getting into it, right, Bro?

2342
01:36:42,400 --> 01:36:44,160
Speaker 2: I mean we started a company now, mind you Bluod

2343
01:36:44,160 --> 01:36:44,719
Speaker 2: sweating tears.

2344
01:36:44,760 --> 01:36:45,200
Speaker 3: We was broke.

2345
01:36:45,280 --> 01:36:48,439
Speaker 2: We got people in the staff meeting like, we don't

2346
01:36:48,479 --> 01:36:52,840
Speaker 2: feel like the work environment shop the work environment is,

2347
01:36:52,880 --> 01:36:54,000
Speaker 2: I said, y'all work from home?

2348
01:36:54,520 --> 01:36:57,320
Speaker 3: What you mean to work? Work? Like?

2349
01:36:57,560 --> 01:37:00,920
Speaker 2: When we transitioned into like a come company, it was

2350
01:37:01,120 --> 01:37:02,920
Speaker 2: us and how many people we got, how many people

2351
01:37:02,920 --> 01:37:03,960
Speaker 2: that we had to work with us, now.

2352
01:37:05,920 --> 01:37:06,760
Speaker 3: Forty three people.

2353
01:37:06,880 --> 01:37:08,720
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Like, so that changed for me,

2354
01:37:08,840 --> 01:37:10,680
Speaker 2: and I didn't want to. I never signed up to

2355
01:37:10,760 --> 01:37:14,240
Speaker 2: be nobody supervisor, like that wasn't my thing, and so

2356
01:37:14,880 --> 01:37:17,599
Speaker 2: that kind of also put a, you know, a damper

2357
01:37:17,680 --> 01:37:19,360
Speaker 2: on what we were trying to build. In my now,

2358
01:37:19,439 --> 01:37:21,920
Speaker 2: these people are extremely talented and very important. Shout out

2359
01:37:21,920 --> 01:37:24,519
Speaker 2: to everybody worked for ETA. I love every one of y'all.

2360
01:37:25,000 --> 01:37:27,680
Speaker 2: But it changed the dynamics of how save one more time?

2361
01:37:27,760 --> 01:37:28,960
Speaker 3: Saving one more time? Bruh.

2362
01:37:29,120 --> 01:37:29,800
Speaker 4: I love everyone.

2363
01:37:29,920 --> 01:37:31,320
Speaker 9: Hey listen, I know I love all of the bro

2364
01:37:31,439 --> 01:37:32,080
Speaker 9: It's just different now.

2365
01:37:32,120 --> 01:37:34,320
Speaker 2: I got an email came through the other day apparently

2366
01:37:34,400 --> 01:37:37,680
Speaker 2: we got a wellness reimbursement program. I'm like, wait, so

2367
01:37:37,720 --> 01:37:39,720
Speaker 2: people go get besides this and I gotta pay for it.

2368
01:37:39,760 --> 01:37:41,880
Speaker 2: It's just different, you know what I'm saying. And want

2369
01:37:42,040 --> 01:37:45,160
Speaker 2: people to feel good and feel well. I'm saying so

2370
01:37:45,360 --> 01:37:48,000
Speaker 2: look that that again. And I love everybody and they

2371
01:37:48,080 --> 01:37:50,479
Speaker 2: play a great part in the company and building the company.

2372
01:37:50,560 --> 01:37:53,080
Speaker 3: But it changed. It wasn't just the ET and CJ

2373
01:37:53,200 --> 01:37:55,160
Speaker 3: show anymore. So is it safe to say that you

2374
01:37:55,280 --> 01:37:58,479
Speaker 3: were a greatly the great creator, not a great boss? Oh?

2375
01:37:58,520 --> 01:38:02,120
Speaker 2: One hundred percent that I don't want to tell nobody

2376
01:38:02,200 --> 01:38:03,679
Speaker 2: what to do. I don't want to be in charge

2377
01:38:03,680 --> 01:38:05,680
Speaker 2: of your schedule. I don't just want to go get

2378
01:38:05,720 --> 01:38:08,439
Speaker 2: the bad bro, I promise it. Now, we gotta sign

2379
01:38:08,520 --> 01:38:09,800
Speaker 2: up for that. She do a great job of that.

2380
01:38:09,920 --> 01:38:10,240
Speaker 3: I don't.

2381
01:38:10,439 --> 01:38:13,839
Speaker 2: I don't want to be telling people what it Steiny's

2382
01:38:13,880 --> 01:38:16,679
Speaker 2: my creativity, Like my job is to build and create,

2383
01:38:17,200 --> 01:38:19,519
Speaker 2: and I can't do that. Like I tell people all

2384
01:38:19,560 --> 01:38:21,240
Speaker 2: the time, it'll be like I emailed you, I don't

2385
01:38:21,280 --> 01:38:23,439
Speaker 2: check email. I don't do email. Bro, don't email me.

2386
01:38:23,479 --> 01:38:24,960
Speaker 2: You got you either you got my number and we

2387
01:38:25,080 --> 01:38:27,080
Speaker 2: cool enough to text, or I don't need like I

2388
01:38:27,160 --> 01:38:28,040
Speaker 2: promise you, it's nothing.

2389
01:38:28,040 --> 01:38:28,280
Speaker 3: I don't.

2390
01:38:28,720 --> 01:38:30,759
Speaker 2: Only reason I got a computer is because the pandemic

2391
01:38:30,960 --> 01:38:34,160
Speaker 2: Nikki start making us do zoom stuff like with our podcast.

2392
01:38:34,479 --> 01:38:36,320
Speaker 2: I don't have no computer. So people like, oh, I

2393
01:38:36,439 --> 01:38:37,880
Speaker 2: emailed you, Okay, that's how I know. I don't need

2394
01:38:37,920 --> 01:38:39,519
Speaker 2: to fool with you. If you emailed that, you know

2395
01:38:39,560 --> 01:38:41,400
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Like, I don't do that because again,

2396
01:38:41,680 --> 01:38:44,000
Speaker 2: what happens is and I don't do calendars. I don't

2397
01:38:44,000 --> 01:38:46,200
Speaker 2: do Google calendars. I don't do none of that because

2398
01:38:46,240 --> 01:38:48,160
Speaker 2: some kind of way. If I fill my calendar with

2399
01:38:48,200 --> 01:38:50,400
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of stuff, my brain just locks in

2400
01:38:50,520 --> 01:38:52,439
Speaker 2: on that and it can't build nothing else. So I've

2401
01:38:52,479 --> 01:38:55,240
Speaker 2: always been very so he talks about it. I've always

2402
01:38:55,280 --> 01:38:58,800
Speaker 2: been very like particular about my space, because when I

2403
01:38:58,880 --> 01:39:00,800
Speaker 2: get bogged down, I don't think as well. I don't

2404
01:39:00,880 --> 01:39:02,960
Speaker 2: build companies. I don't you know, make the money. I

2405
01:39:03,000 --> 01:39:05,639
Speaker 2: don't build the relationships. And so that was another part,

2406
01:39:05,920 --> 01:39:07,960
Speaker 2: Like when we start having all these people and meetings

2407
01:39:08,000 --> 01:39:10,200
Speaker 2: and I got banned from the staff meeting probably about

2408
01:39:10,680 --> 01:39:15,640
Speaker 2: seven years ago. After one staff meeting, he was like, bro,

2409
01:39:15,800 --> 01:39:18,360
Speaker 2: were about to get the move Bro.

2410
01:39:18,479 --> 01:39:19,320
Speaker 4: I was firing off.

2411
01:39:20,840 --> 01:39:23,120
Speaker 3: I was killing everybody. I literally I felt.

2412
01:39:23,200 --> 01:39:25,559
Speaker 2: I hung up the phone and like it rang right back,

2413
01:39:25,560 --> 01:39:27,280
Speaker 2: and I know he was like, hey, you know he

2414
01:39:27,400 --> 01:39:29,439
Speaker 2: he don't like the big confrontation. He's like, hey, you

2415
01:39:29,520 --> 01:39:31,400
Speaker 2: know what, See, don't even worry about the staff meetings.

2416
01:39:31,880 --> 01:39:32,680
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take care of that.

2417
01:39:32,800 --> 01:39:33,519
Speaker 3: I was like, thank you.

2418
01:39:33,760 --> 01:39:35,600
Speaker 2: I ain't been on one since. I ain't been on

2419
01:39:35,680 --> 01:39:37,840
Speaker 2: one since. But it just changed the dynamic up a

2420
01:39:37,880 --> 01:39:40,640
Speaker 2: little bit. But again, you got to understand at that

2421
01:39:40,760 --> 01:39:43,040
Speaker 2: same time that we kind of like we're doing our

2422
01:39:43,280 --> 01:39:46,960
Speaker 2: separate thing. I got married, I had a kid, I

2423
01:39:47,080 --> 01:39:49,960
Speaker 2: had another kid, I bought a house. My wife was

2424
01:39:50,000 --> 01:39:52,280
Speaker 2: working like it was just I wasn't when we met.

2425
01:39:52,360 --> 01:39:53,120
Speaker 3: I was single.

2426
01:39:53,400 --> 01:39:55,599
Speaker 2: I was just like, yo, we run wherever. I'll sleep

2427
01:39:55,640 --> 01:39:57,680
Speaker 2: in your basement. It's all good. And he wanted that

2428
01:39:57,760 --> 01:39:58,800
Speaker 2: feeling the last forever.

2429
01:39:59,280 --> 01:40:01,000
Speaker 3: And so hey, kid, ask.

2430
01:40:03,720 --> 01:40:06,240
Speaker 2: Im like, BROI it turns out my wife actually wants

2431
01:40:06,280 --> 01:40:08,120
Speaker 2: me to come home, so I gotta go.

2432
01:40:08,240 --> 01:40:10,720
Speaker 6: Bro, so before we rather, let me tek you this

2433
01:40:11,240 --> 01:40:13,600
Speaker 6: both you guys can say if you want, what is

2434
01:40:13,640 --> 01:40:15,000
Speaker 6: somebody gonna get out of that book?

2435
01:40:15,160 --> 01:40:16,439
Speaker 3: Like what do you want them to get? What do

2436
01:40:16,479 --> 01:40:17,200
Speaker 3: you think that they think?

2437
01:40:18,600 --> 01:40:23,080
Speaker 7: You know, I want people to stop, especially people of color,

2438
01:40:24,400 --> 01:40:27,960
Speaker 7: to stop talking about all the things that are against

2439
01:40:28,040 --> 01:40:31,080
Speaker 7: us and why they can't live the American dream. No father,

2440
01:40:31,560 --> 01:40:33,639
Speaker 7: like my biological father was in my life, my mom,

2441
01:40:33,680 --> 01:40:36,120
Speaker 7: and you know I'm married your father. Bro, I'm just

2442
01:40:36,200 --> 01:40:38,680
Speaker 7: being real just because of the way it happened, we

2443
01:40:38,800 --> 01:40:41,880
Speaker 7: never really got that emotional boy, and it was on me,

2444
01:40:42,040 --> 01:40:44,760
Speaker 7: like you said, I'm the one I take I take

2445
01:40:44,800 --> 01:40:48,920
Speaker 7: my l but I just homeless, high school drop out.

2446
01:40:49,479 --> 01:40:51,240
Speaker 4: You know, I just went through a lot and for

2447
01:40:51,600 --> 01:40:52,880
Speaker 4: a certain period of my life.

2448
01:40:53,240 --> 01:40:56,479
Speaker 7: It was always about why they ain't doing this for me,

2449
01:40:56,640 --> 01:40:59,760
Speaker 7: why this ain't working, why I can't live the American dream.

2450
01:40:59,840 --> 01:41:02,479
Speaker 7: I just had a bunch of excuses. I just want

2451
01:41:02,560 --> 01:41:03,920
Speaker 7: them to know, bro, when I woke up one day

2452
01:41:03,920 --> 01:41:05,240
Speaker 7: and it's like, yoa, it is your life. You gotta

2453
01:41:05,280 --> 01:41:07,320
Speaker 7: own it, bro, Like you got to own the fact

2454
01:41:07,320 --> 01:41:08,760
Speaker 7: that your father wasn't there. You ain't the only one

2455
01:41:08,760 --> 01:41:10,559
Speaker 7: who daddy was in your life. You ain't the only

2456
01:41:10,600 --> 01:41:12,600
Speaker 7: one Mama who got pregnant at seventeen. You ain't the

2457
01:41:12,680 --> 01:41:14,719
Speaker 7: only one from the hood. Like, you ain't the only.

2458
01:41:14,640 --> 01:41:15,680
Speaker 4: One that had it. Bro.

2459
01:41:15,880 --> 01:41:18,120
Speaker 7: You know what it's like, bro, having a father who

2460
01:41:18,240 --> 01:41:20,080
Speaker 7: raised you. My mom you know she married. You know

2461
01:41:20,120 --> 01:41:21,760
Speaker 7: what it's like having a father who's six 's eight.

2462
01:41:22,760 --> 01:41:24,719
Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying, two hundred and fifty pounds

2463
01:41:24,760 --> 01:41:26,920
Speaker 7: and everybody like, you know, that ain't your daddy, And

2464
01:41:27,000 --> 01:41:28,559
Speaker 7: I'm like, it's got to be because my mom said

2465
01:41:28,600 --> 01:41:28,880
Speaker 7: it was.

2466
01:41:29,400 --> 01:41:29,920
Speaker 4: You know what it's like.

2467
01:41:30,000 --> 01:41:31,599
Speaker 7: You know how it is on the on the block

2468
01:41:31,680 --> 01:41:34,320
Speaker 7: or at school. The jokes is like, you know, people

2469
01:41:34,400 --> 01:41:36,960
Speaker 7: go hard, bro, Like a joking is already joking. But

2470
01:41:37,000 --> 01:41:40,200
Speaker 7: when somebody finds something, they going hard. My whole life,

2471
01:41:40,280 --> 01:41:43,439
Speaker 7: CATS was coming at me because of my situation. So

2472
01:41:43,800 --> 01:41:47,800
Speaker 7: I always had a reason for why my life ain't

2473
01:41:47,800 --> 01:41:49,920
Speaker 7: where it's supposed to be. And I just was running

2474
01:41:50,360 --> 01:41:52,800
Speaker 7: and hiding and like you said, didn't want to deal

2475
01:41:52,880 --> 01:41:53,600
Speaker 7: with confrontation.

2476
01:41:53,840 --> 01:41:54,320
Speaker 4: Didn't want to.

2477
01:41:54,520 --> 01:41:56,840
Speaker 7: And I woke up one day seeing people fly first class,

2478
01:41:56,920 --> 01:42:01,160
Speaker 7: seeing people by coastal, seeing people walk millions, seeing people

2479
01:42:01,280 --> 01:42:03,400
Speaker 7: change people's lives, and I was like, E, you could

2480
01:42:03,439 --> 01:42:05,120
Speaker 7: do that, but you can't do it until you own it.

2481
01:42:05,600 --> 01:42:07,160
Speaker 4: And I want people to read this book.

2482
01:42:07,320 --> 01:42:07,680
Speaker 3: Bump E.

2483
01:42:07,880 --> 01:42:10,800
Speaker 4: Don't cadding about E. I want you to read this book.

2484
01:42:11,120 --> 01:42:13,200
Speaker 7: I don't care if you read chapter one and you

2485
01:42:13,320 --> 01:42:16,479
Speaker 7: feel like I'm taking full responsibility for my life. Stop

2486
01:42:16,560 --> 01:42:18,800
Speaker 7: reading the book right after chapter one. If it takes

2487
01:42:18,800 --> 01:42:21,759
Speaker 7: you to chapter three to go, I'm taking full ownership

2488
01:42:21,840 --> 01:42:22,240
Speaker 7: of my life.

2489
01:42:22,280 --> 01:42:25,400
Speaker 4: I don't care what chapter it takes. I just want

2490
01:42:25,479 --> 01:42:27,840
Speaker 4: people to understand bruh.

2491
01:42:29,360 --> 01:42:31,240
Speaker 7: Life got an expiration date on it, and you don't

2492
01:42:31,280 --> 01:42:34,160
Speaker 7: know when it is Bruh Brad is better than human life.

2493
01:42:34,800 --> 01:42:37,720
Speaker 7: At least you know when bread expires, Milk you know

2494
01:42:37,760 --> 01:42:39,400
Speaker 7: when it expire. You don't know when you are pout

2495
01:42:39,400 --> 01:42:41,160
Speaker 7: of here. We don't know if we out of here

2496
01:42:41,240 --> 01:42:43,720
Speaker 7: this year, next year to yeat. So it's like Bruh says,

2497
01:42:43,760 --> 01:42:46,760
Speaker 7: you don't live that long. Whatever you want, go get it,

2498
01:42:46,880 --> 01:42:50,639
Speaker 7: but you cannot get it if you going CJ owe

2499
01:42:50,720 --> 01:42:53,720
Speaker 7: me something, or the government owed me something, or the

2500
01:42:53,840 --> 01:42:57,400
Speaker 7: president a bro. I don't care who in office. Obama

2501
01:42:57,439 --> 01:42:59,400
Speaker 7: was in off. That's my man, fifty grand. I was like,

2502
01:42:59,439 --> 01:43:01,040
Speaker 7: I ain't never think that was gonna happen. But I

2503
01:43:01,240 --> 01:43:05,520
Speaker 7: never thought Obama was coming to one oh seven Waterbury

2504
01:43:05,880 --> 01:43:07,960
Speaker 7: in Huntsville, Alabama.

2505
01:43:07,680 --> 01:43:09,200
Speaker 4: And was gonna come and save me and my wife.

2506
01:43:09,600 --> 01:43:10,519
Speaker 4: He was in the White House.

2507
01:43:10,640 --> 01:43:13,360
Speaker 7: He wasn't about to come to Detroit Henry Ford, where

2508
01:43:13,360 --> 01:43:15,080
Speaker 7: I went to school. He wasn't about to come to

2509
01:43:15,080 --> 01:43:17,439
Speaker 7: Detroit and talk to those kids. So I woke up

2510
01:43:17,439 --> 01:43:18,960
Speaker 7: one day and was like, YO, you can have whatever

2511
01:43:19,040 --> 01:43:22,720
Speaker 7: you like, but you have to take personal responsibility.

2512
01:43:22,840 --> 01:43:23,600
Speaker 4: You gotta own it.

2513
01:43:23,600 --> 01:43:26,120
Speaker 7: And I'm gonna tell y'all something. Once you take responsibility

2514
01:43:26,120 --> 01:43:28,800
Speaker 7: and you own it, can't nobody stop you. I'm talking

2515
01:43:28,800 --> 01:43:30,040
Speaker 7: about like I watch y'all.

2516
01:43:30,080 --> 01:43:32,160
Speaker 4: I'm proud of y'all, Like you got We didn't even

2517
01:43:32,200 --> 01:43:33,479
Speaker 4: take our podcast at this level.

2518
01:43:33,680 --> 01:43:36,479
Speaker 7: Why because we didn't own the podcast, like the podcast

2519
01:43:36,600 --> 01:43:38,519
Speaker 7: was something was up, just like we're having fun.

2520
01:43:38,760 --> 01:43:40,360
Speaker 4: It's a way for me to talk to me once

2521
01:43:40,400 --> 01:43:40,680
Speaker 4: a week.

2522
01:43:40,960 --> 01:43:43,160
Speaker 7: Since he got a wife and kid, you're gonna said,

2523
01:43:43,160 --> 01:43:45,000
Speaker 7: at least the podcast a good hour and a half.

2524
01:43:45,240 --> 01:43:46,080
Speaker 4: We could chop it up.

2525
01:43:46,120 --> 01:43:47,240
Speaker 3: So we were just chilling on it.

2526
01:43:47,520 --> 01:43:49,560
Speaker 7: But I look at what y'all done with the podcast

2527
01:43:50,040 --> 01:43:53,240
Speaker 7: and the people y'all had and the dialogue, and when

2528
01:43:53,280 --> 01:43:56,080
Speaker 7: you can literally watch y'all podcasts and go to work

2529
01:43:56,160 --> 01:43:58,759
Speaker 7: like it's like going to college without going to college,

2530
01:43:58,960 --> 01:44:01,559
Speaker 7: Like you can watch your lead and walk like yo, I'm.

2531
01:44:01,400 --> 01:44:04,960
Speaker 3: An earned like we're owned. Take me, that's it.

2532
01:44:05,160 --> 01:44:07,520
Speaker 4: Earn own it, take responsibility.

2533
01:44:07,640 --> 01:44:09,400
Speaker 7: So I just want people to read the book and

2534
01:44:09,760 --> 01:44:12,760
Speaker 7: from that day forth go, I'm counting on one human being.

2535
01:44:13,760 --> 01:44:15,920
Speaker 7: I'm counting on one human being the rest of my life,

2536
01:44:16,040 --> 01:44:17,720
Speaker 7: and that's the human I'm looking in the mirror. And

2537
01:44:17,840 --> 01:44:20,160
Speaker 7: I can do and be and have whatever I want

2538
01:44:20,520 --> 01:44:23,719
Speaker 7: if I make that person live up to that person's potential.

2539
01:44:23,880 --> 01:44:25,680
Speaker 7: And if you could do that, that's all I want

2540
01:44:25,760 --> 01:44:28,439
Speaker 7: from the book. And again, I am a poster child.

2541
01:44:28,520 --> 01:44:32,240
Speaker 7: Love literally bit bro, no disrespect, but a lot of

2542
01:44:32,320 --> 01:44:35,559
Speaker 7: hip hop artists they rap about stuff they ain't really

2543
01:44:36,360 --> 01:44:38,120
Speaker 7: so when people feel like yo, E, I feel you

2544
01:44:38,240 --> 01:44:40,720
Speaker 7: feel me because I was homeless. I know what it's

2545
01:44:40,800 --> 01:44:42,639
Speaker 7: like not to have a daddy. I know what it's

2546
01:44:42,680 --> 01:44:44,920
Speaker 7: like not being able to read the right on level like.

2547
01:44:45,000 --> 01:44:46,760
Speaker 7: I know what it's like not to be able to comprehend.

2548
01:44:47,040 --> 01:44:49,040
Speaker 7: I know what it's like to beats just let's say

2549
01:44:49,080 --> 01:44:51,920
Speaker 7: stuff that ain't nothing like get twisted on work. I

2550
01:44:52,040 --> 01:44:54,280
Speaker 7: know what it's like to feel stupid and dumb. I

2551
01:44:54,400 --> 01:44:57,200
Speaker 7: know what it's like to live alone. Your mama ain't coming,

2552
01:44:57,400 --> 01:45:00,559
Speaker 7: Your daddy ain't like you as homeless, you couldn't eat

2553
01:45:00,640 --> 01:45:04,160
Speaker 7: bump that you are isolated, nobody loves you, you not

2554
01:45:04,360 --> 01:45:07,320
Speaker 7: talking to nobody. You feel useless, You feel like the

2555
01:45:07,400 --> 01:45:09,479
Speaker 7: scum of the earth. Your own daddy don't love you.

2556
01:45:09,479 --> 01:45:11,840
Speaker 7: Your own daddy ain't coming from it. I ain't know

2557
01:45:11,960 --> 01:45:15,519
Speaker 7: what it's like to be at the bottom. Not I

2558
01:45:15,680 --> 01:45:18,160
Speaker 7: grew up in this, you know, urban community, at the

2559
01:45:18,520 --> 01:45:22,479
Speaker 7: not that bottom like soul bottom, like spirit bottom, like

2560
01:45:22,680 --> 01:45:25,240
Speaker 7: human bottom. I know what it's like to not brush

2561
01:45:25,320 --> 01:45:27,800
Speaker 7: your teeth, not to have running water and be able

2562
01:45:27,880 --> 01:45:30,120
Speaker 7: to take a bath and I'm telling you, if I

2563
01:45:30,280 --> 01:45:33,599
Speaker 7: could get up from that in Jesus name and get

2564
01:45:33,640 --> 01:45:35,800
Speaker 7: to where I am, you ain't got no excuse brouh.

2565
01:45:36,680 --> 01:45:37,240
Speaker 9: It ain't none.

2566
01:45:37,280 --> 01:45:39,880
Speaker 7: You could tell the authority comes from It ain't none.

2567
01:45:39,880 --> 01:45:42,400
Speaker 7: You could tell me I'm not a good speaker. I

2568
01:45:42,479 --> 01:45:45,160
Speaker 7: went from nothing to number one in the world. You

2569
01:45:45,280 --> 01:45:48,280
Speaker 7: can't tell me that. If you take your life serious,

2570
01:45:48,720 --> 01:45:50,600
Speaker 7: it ain't nothing you can't be or do. And so

2571
01:45:51,000 --> 01:45:53,400
Speaker 7: you gotta read the book. Even if you don't want

2572
01:45:53,439 --> 01:45:54,880
Speaker 7: to read it, you gotta read it because you gotta

2573
01:45:54,920 --> 01:45:56,840
Speaker 7: help your boy. You know what I'm saying, get to

2574
01:45:56,920 --> 01:45:57,639
Speaker 7: the next level.

2575
01:45:57,800 --> 01:45:59,760
Speaker 3: So I need you to go. You owe you to go.

2576
01:45:59,840 --> 01:46:04,320
Speaker 3: Get in the book. Yeah, man, hip hop preacher.

2577
01:46:04,600 --> 01:46:06,000
Speaker 4: Thank y'all, thank you, thank you.

2578
01:46:06,200 --> 01:46:08,680
Speaker 3: I gotta ask a question, right, said hip Hop? He

2579
01:46:08,800 --> 01:46:13,200
Speaker 3: started with no questions, no question. I'm interested, no questions.

2580
01:46:13,880 --> 01:46:18,599
Speaker 3: This hip hop Top five.

2581
01:46:19,160 --> 01:46:23,280
Speaker 7: Hey, y'all young, forgive me, but y'all gotta show respect

2582
01:46:23,320 --> 01:46:26,519
Speaker 7: to run DMC. Y'all wouldn't even be there without run DMC.

2583
01:46:26,720 --> 01:46:29,599
Speaker 7: So don't give me all that pop can be run

2584
01:46:29,760 --> 01:46:32,680
Speaker 7: DMC started it all off, all right, Now, this is

2585
01:46:32,800 --> 01:46:34,920
Speaker 7: my wild card, this is my but I ain't never

2586
01:46:35,000 --> 01:46:38,439
Speaker 7: seen no sixteen year old with the passionate energy LLL

2587
01:46:38,560 --> 01:46:39,960
Speaker 7: cool J my radio.

2588
01:46:41,160 --> 01:46:42,880
Speaker 4: I watched him live tougher than Leather.

2589
01:46:43,479 --> 01:46:43,720
Speaker 11: I was.

2590
01:46:43,840 --> 01:46:44,320
Speaker 8: I was in.

2591
01:46:44,840 --> 01:46:47,240
Speaker 7: I was at the stadium watching my man do his thing.

2592
01:46:48,280 --> 01:46:52,559
Speaker 7: Of course, pop because of what I'm into, Pop, Biggie

2593
01:46:52,880 --> 01:46:55,240
Speaker 7: and my favorite. Just because I'm from the d you

2594
01:46:55,320 --> 01:46:57,519
Speaker 7: gotta throw eminem and then I know y'all want to

2595
01:46:57,560 --> 01:47:00,759
Speaker 7: hear that, but you gotta throw in in there because

2596
01:47:01,040 --> 01:47:03,640
Speaker 7: for me, he created a He took something that was

2597
01:47:03,720 --> 01:47:06,600
Speaker 7: already phenomenal and gave it a twist that nobody had

2598
01:47:06,640 --> 01:47:07,400
Speaker 7: ever heard before.

2599
01:47:07,760 --> 01:47:09,120
Speaker 4: And get I'm from eight Mile.

2600
01:47:09,160 --> 01:47:11,400
Speaker 7: I'm sorry eight Mile, but I lived on eight mile,

2601
01:47:11,439 --> 01:47:14,240
Speaker 7: which is a digital It is a digital, it is

2602
01:47:14,320 --> 01:47:17,519
Speaker 7: a wealth, it is an academic divide. I lived on

2603
01:47:17,600 --> 01:47:20,840
Speaker 7: this side of eight mile. The rich white Couca lived

2604
01:47:20,880 --> 01:47:22,360
Speaker 7: on the other side of eight miles. So I understand

2605
01:47:22,439 --> 01:47:24,519
Speaker 7: what he meant by eight mile, not just the street

2606
01:47:24,600 --> 01:47:27,800
Speaker 7: because I lived on it, but culturally in Detroit, eight

2607
01:47:27,880 --> 01:47:31,439
Speaker 7: miles separates the halves from the half nots. And then,

2608
01:47:31,640 --> 01:47:34,280
Speaker 7: just like I said, trailer park, that's that whole concept

2609
01:47:34,760 --> 01:47:36,720
Speaker 7: to me. One of those are my top five.

2610
01:47:37,000 --> 01:47:39,320
Speaker 8: I'm gonna get you. I wanna get your too. Wins

2611
01:47:39,360 --> 01:47:43,360
Speaker 8: and losses. The intro, oh who put that together? Was

2612
01:47:43,400 --> 01:47:45,800
Speaker 8: that you see familiar what me was doing.

2613
01:47:46,880 --> 01:47:48,120
Speaker 4: I didn't know what Meek was doing.

2614
01:47:48,640 --> 01:47:50,360
Speaker 3: I didn't know what that's business.

2615
01:47:50,400 --> 01:47:53,200
Speaker 7: I didn't know. You know, no, I knew Meek meaning

2616
01:47:53,280 --> 01:47:55,439
Speaker 7: that we were at the super Bowl together. I never forget.

2617
01:47:55,720 --> 01:47:58,000
Speaker 7: We were in the mall of the galleria and I

2618
01:47:58,120 --> 01:48:01,080
Speaker 7: saw like eight to ten brus all walking. I'm like,

2619
01:48:01,160 --> 01:48:02,000
Speaker 7: what in the world.

2620
01:48:02,400 --> 01:48:03,280
Speaker 3: And I looked and I.

2621
01:48:03,280 --> 01:48:04,960
Speaker 4: Saw Meet, and Meet saw him. He was like, what's up?

2622
01:48:05,439 --> 01:48:07,000
Speaker 4: And we exchange. He was just like yo.

2623
01:48:07,120 --> 01:48:10,000
Speaker 7: When I was, you know, locked up like you're I

2624
01:48:10,120 --> 01:48:11,680
Speaker 7: listened to your stuff and I was like, wow, you

2625
01:48:11,760 --> 01:48:15,240
Speaker 7: never know who is listening. But from that exchange, like

2626
01:48:15,320 --> 01:48:18,120
Speaker 7: that was it like we kind of connected og. He

2627
01:48:18,280 --> 01:48:20,479
Speaker 7: just come out, you know, had that energy. But I

2628
01:48:20,520 --> 01:48:22,479
Speaker 7: didn't see it was just like, hey, what you want

2629
01:48:22,520 --> 01:48:24,639
Speaker 7: to do From a financial standpoint, I was like, I see,

2630
01:48:24,680 --> 01:48:27,240
Speaker 7: I'm just grateful that they're using I never knew it

2631
01:48:27,240 --> 01:48:29,680
Speaker 7: would man, I never knew it would do. I never

2632
01:48:29,760 --> 01:48:32,280
Speaker 7: knew that he put some heat on that. Yeah, I

2633
01:48:32,400 --> 01:48:35,080
Speaker 7: never knew. So I guess I'm but the biggest.

2634
01:48:34,760 --> 01:48:37,000
Speaker 4: One though, is to me already ready you know, just

2635
01:48:37,160 --> 01:48:38,720
Speaker 4: you know they want to sign off on it.

2636
01:48:39,400 --> 01:48:40,320
Speaker 3: What's the other group? Though?

2637
01:48:40,560 --> 01:48:44,120
Speaker 7: Nobody talks about disclosure though after me I went to

2638
01:48:44,240 --> 01:48:45,760
Speaker 7: got the money and Disclosure.

2639
01:48:45,800 --> 01:48:47,760
Speaker 4: Did they think you know they don't do nothing but beat?

2640
01:48:49,000 --> 01:48:49,240
Speaker 3: Yeah?

2641
01:48:49,560 --> 01:48:51,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, So we made a lot of money from those boys.

2642
01:48:51,960 --> 01:48:53,720
Speaker 2: You never know who you are, but listen, it was

2643
01:48:53,760 --> 01:48:56,439
Speaker 2: so embarrassing. They so they did a big concert over

2644
01:48:56,520 --> 01:48:59,080
Speaker 2: in Australia. Right, I'm so happened to be over there

2645
01:48:59,439 --> 01:49:02,639
Speaker 2: in why Disclosure over there doing this set. It's thousands

2646
01:49:02,640 --> 01:49:04,720
Speaker 2: of people that enjoyed. They're like, oh, we're gonna bring

2647
01:49:04,800 --> 01:49:07,439
Speaker 2: it out and he gonna do the words like he

2648
01:49:07,600 --> 01:49:09,719
Speaker 2: on there saying like when the fire Stars they burned,

2649
01:49:09,760 --> 01:49:10,200
Speaker 2: he forgot the.

2650
01:49:10,200 --> 01:49:13,160
Speaker 3: Worst the word I ain't never know the world. I

2651
01:49:13,439 --> 01:49:14,839
Speaker 3: got to chaske him backstage.

2652
01:49:15,160 --> 01:49:16,120
Speaker 4: I just got the check.

2653
01:49:16,439 --> 01:49:17,760
Speaker 9: I was like, hey, you know it right?

2654
01:49:17,840 --> 01:49:19,760
Speaker 3: He was like yeah, what you say?

2655
01:49:20,120 --> 01:49:21,760
Speaker 9: And then it was like e T he's a rent

2656
01:49:21,800 --> 01:49:24,120
Speaker 9: out there. And then he's like it got to his part.

2657
01:49:24,160 --> 01:49:25,880
Speaker 3: He's just like let's go.

2658
01:49:27,240 --> 01:49:30,120
Speaker 7: Let's cause like they know what happened was though they

2659
01:49:30,160 --> 01:49:33,080
Speaker 7: took some off YouTube, but they mixed it, so they.

2660
01:49:33,000 --> 01:49:35,519
Speaker 4: Didn't have it just like I said, they.

2661
01:49:35,479 --> 01:49:38,240
Speaker 3: Switched it up, bro, so it was the same album verse.

2662
01:49:39,160 --> 01:49:44,559
Speaker 13: Whatever, let's go on, let's go on, he was, we're

2663
01:49:44,560 --> 01:49:47,320
Speaker 13: still getting the check. I must have done okay because

2664
01:49:47,320 --> 01:49:49,840
Speaker 13: they brought me back to do three things live in the.

2665
01:49:49,880 --> 01:49:54,280
Speaker 3: Studio and recording, so let's go. Yeah, they did screw more,

2666
01:49:54,400 --> 01:49:56,080
Speaker 3: so let's gotta get your five. Man.

2667
01:49:56,479 --> 01:50:01,519
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I'll be remiss about it. I gotta

2668
01:50:01,520 --> 01:50:05,639
Speaker 2: start with with my son told me we played as

2669
01:50:05,720 --> 01:50:07,720
Speaker 2: his father. I would be, you know, be trouble at

2670
01:50:07,760 --> 01:50:10,680
Speaker 2: the house if I didn't say him. Biggie is my

2671
01:50:10,760 --> 01:50:13,720
Speaker 2: favorite rapper of all time. Man, I'm just a big fan.

2672
01:50:13,760 --> 01:50:13,960
Speaker 3: Again.

2673
01:50:14,000 --> 01:50:15,600
Speaker 2: I don't know what best you know all of that,

2674
01:50:16,000 --> 01:50:22,200
Speaker 2: but big whole probably second part, uh and fifth I

2675
01:50:22,240 --> 01:50:24,880
Speaker 2: would say if we put tebe Niggas, I got to uh.

2676
01:50:26,040 --> 01:50:27,840
Speaker 2: I know y'all gonna hate me, but I gotta go.

2677
01:50:28,120 --> 01:50:29,800
Speaker 2: Me and Alex gonna go Drizzy all day.

2678
01:50:30,240 --> 01:50:30,400
Speaker 9: You know.

2679
01:50:30,840 --> 01:50:33,240
Speaker 2: First of all, you know Drizzy is a representative of

2680
01:50:33,600 --> 01:50:36,559
Speaker 2: the half white Okay, you know what I'm saying. Let

2681
01:50:36,760 --> 01:50:38,880
Speaker 2: just be honest about my bike and we are you

2682
01:50:38,960 --> 01:50:40,479
Speaker 2: know what I man, I grew up. You know, a

2683
01:50:40,600 --> 01:50:42,760
Speaker 2: mixed kid too, So it's good to see him and

2684
01:50:42,880 --> 01:50:43,600
Speaker 2: we're gonna.

2685
01:50:43,320 --> 01:50:46,280
Speaker 4: See that we're just talking about just pure.

2686
01:50:46,040 --> 01:50:49,560
Speaker 2: Boding community, you know what I'm saying. You know, we

2687
01:50:49,760 --> 01:50:51,720
Speaker 2: we've been you know, suppressed for a while, but Drake

2688
01:50:51,760 --> 01:50:52,320
Speaker 2: got us on top.

2689
01:50:52,400 --> 01:50:52,479
Speaker 3: Now.

2690
01:50:52,520 --> 01:50:55,439
Speaker 2: I look, hey, listen, I know a lot of people

2691
01:50:55,520 --> 01:50:57,320
Speaker 2: too hard core to say Drake, but I promise you

2692
01:50:57,360 --> 01:50:58,920
Speaker 2: I love everything Drake do.

2693
01:50:59,120 --> 01:51:01,920
Speaker 4: So I would say Drake is in my top five

2694
01:51:02,000 --> 01:51:02,360
Speaker 4: for sure.

2695
01:51:02,439 --> 01:51:05,639
Speaker 6: It's definitely, it's encouraging, it's inspiring. You never know who

2696
01:51:05,680 --> 01:51:09,280
Speaker 6: you're gonna impact enough to get Jim Jones. So Jim

2697
01:51:09,360 --> 01:51:11,400
Speaker 6: is somebody who was an interesting person because on the

2698
01:51:11,479 --> 01:51:13,680
Speaker 6: outside you look at Jim and you're thinking, like, you know,

2699
01:51:13,720 --> 01:51:16,240
Speaker 6: a gangst the rapper or a tough guy, super tough guy.

2700
01:51:16,520 --> 01:51:19,200
Speaker 6: But he's actually a really good dude and we've gotten

2701
01:51:19,200 --> 01:51:21,320
Speaker 6: a chance to know him. Yeah, and last year we

2702
01:51:21,400 --> 01:51:23,200
Speaker 6: did in Best Fest. Last year we had less Brown

2703
01:51:23,760 --> 01:51:26,840
Speaker 6: VIP night. He was telling him and he was like, nah,

2704
01:51:27,000 --> 01:51:29,680
Speaker 6: he was like, yo, he changed my life. He was like,

2705
01:51:29,720 --> 01:51:31,560
Speaker 6: when I was a kid, I was in a like

2706
01:51:31,720 --> 01:51:34,000
Speaker 6: duven out dissension or something like that. And he's like

2707
01:51:34,040 --> 01:51:36,120
Speaker 6: they made the kids go to Madison Square Guard and

2708
01:51:36,160 --> 01:51:37,040
Speaker 6: then watch Less Brown.

2709
01:51:37,080 --> 01:51:37,280
Speaker 4: Wow.

2710
01:51:37,360 --> 01:51:39,240
Speaker 6: He was like, change his life for a few different reasons.

2711
01:51:39,280 --> 01:51:42,080
Speaker 6: He was like, A, he never heard a black man

2712
01:51:42,160 --> 01:51:45,240
Speaker 6: speak like that, yeah, And B he was like, so

2713
01:51:45,520 --> 01:51:48,240
Speaker 6: he Madison Square Guarden was sold out, he wasn't singing,

2714
01:51:48,320 --> 01:51:49,080
Speaker 6: he wasn't dancing.

2715
01:51:49,160 --> 01:51:49,400
Speaker 9: Wow.

2716
01:51:49,560 --> 01:51:52,280
Speaker 3: He was like to see eighteen thousand people there for

2717
01:51:52,360 --> 01:51:55,479
Speaker 3: a black man. He was like, so we made the connection.

2718
01:51:55,600 --> 01:51:57,080
Speaker 6: He got a chance to actually speak to him on

2719
01:51:57,160 --> 01:51:58,760
Speaker 6: his zone, and then he got a chance to meet

2720
01:51:58,800 --> 01:51:59,320
Speaker 6: him in person.

2721
01:51:59,800 --> 01:52:01,360
Speaker 3: He was like, yo, bro, like, you don't know how

2722
01:52:01,439 --> 01:52:04,040
Speaker 3: much this means to me. Yeah.

2723
01:52:04,280 --> 01:52:07,160
Speaker 6: So I say that to say, I'm sure that there

2724
01:52:07,240 --> 01:52:09,639
Speaker 6: is somebody that's you know what I'm saying, multiple thousands,

2725
01:52:09,720 --> 01:52:13,160
Speaker 6: millions of people that same story, Like you know, you

2726
01:52:13,240 --> 01:52:15,280
Speaker 6: never know, you never know who you're impacting.

2727
01:52:15,400 --> 01:52:18,280
Speaker 3: But I'm encouraged, I'm inspired.

2728
01:52:18,800 --> 01:52:22,040
Speaker 6: So I'm pretty sure every single person that's hearing this,

2729
01:52:22,439 --> 01:52:24,400
Speaker 6: And this is the good thing about what I do, Like,

2730
01:52:24,800 --> 01:52:27,679
Speaker 6: I feel like wording is very important. So we stopped

2731
01:52:27,720 --> 01:52:29,800
Speaker 6: calling it a podcast. A long time ago. Dame had

2732
01:52:29,800 --> 01:52:32,160
Speaker 6: told us that actually he's like, don't call it a podcast,

2733
01:52:32,240 --> 01:52:34,960
Speaker 6: And I feel like this is like a historical archive.

2734
01:52:34,960 --> 01:52:37,840
Speaker 4: Question, especially on the level of y'all doing it, Like yeah,

2735
01:52:38,280 --> 01:52:39,240
Speaker 4: we're still just doing the pod.

2736
01:52:41,560 --> 01:52:47,519
Speaker 3: Yeah, we doing this. Yeah, but like twenty years from

2737
01:52:47,560 --> 01:52:49,360
Speaker 3: now undred like you know, we went to each of them.

2738
01:52:49,400 --> 01:52:52,000
Speaker 6: We saw the aeroglyphs on the wall, and it feel like,

2739
01:52:52,080 --> 01:52:54,080
Speaker 6: you know, when they look at this moment in history

2740
01:52:54,160 --> 01:52:57,080
Speaker 6: twenty twenty two and recorded history one hundred years from now,

2741
01:52:57,439 --> 01:52:59,280
Speaker 6: they'll look at this and they'll say that this is

2742
01:52:59,320 --> 01:53:02,400
Speaker 6: a moment history. These are very important people in history

2743
01:53:02,760 --> 01:53:05,800
Speaker 6: to help change the course of history. So I want

2744
01:53:05,800 --> 01:53:06,840
Speaker 6: to thank you brothers for coming.

2745
01:53:07,439 --> 01:53:10,080
Speaker 3: I keep killing it right up, keep killing.

2746
01:53:10,960 --> 01:53:13,519
Speaker 2: I see y'all got Hopefully we're getting King James on.

2747
01:53:13,640 --> 01:53:17,000
Speaker 2: I heard you know what I'm saying Lebron saying. If

2748
01:53:17,040 --> 01:53:19,760
Speaker 2: you're watching, yeah, you know he loves you to life.

2749
01:53:20,840 --> 01:53:22,840
Speaker 2: Now I go, yeah, Brown number one all day. You

2750
01:53:22,880 --> 01:53:24,639
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, Shout out to my brown face.

2751
01:53:24,680 --> 01:53:25,160
Speaker 3: Wise man.

2752
01:53:25,280 --> 01:53:27,000
Speaker 4: We argue. That's all we do on our podcast.

2753
01:53:27,120 --> 01:53:28,040
Speaker 3: I'm from the South Side.

2754
01:53:30,040 --> 01:53:32,240
Speaker 4: It ain't even no argument, bro in the shot.

2755
01:53:32,360 --> 01:53:35,439
Speaker 3: We know the deal. We know what we rock right

2756
01:53:35,479 --> 01:53:36,280
Speaker 3: with Brown all day.

2757
01:53:36,360 --> 01:53:39,800
Speaker 2: But yeah, y'all, y'all keep killing seriously, man's watch since

2758
01:53:40,240 --> 01:53:42,000
Speaker 2: the way back when you know, Alex was on the

2759
01:53:42,080 --> 01:53:43,720
Speaker 2: pile he put me on, was like, yo, you gotta

2760
01:53:43,800 --> 01:53:46,240
Speaker 2: check these dudes out. Been watching ever since. Of course

2761
01:53:46,280 --> 01:53:48,840
Speaker 2: y'all had you know, my my favorite human in the world,

2762
01:53:48,920 --> 01:53:51,200
Speaker 2: Nikki on there. Y'all just keep doing your thing, man,

2763
01:53:51,200 --> 01:53:53,120
Speaker 2: because I think for real, sky is the limit, Like

2764
01:53:53,200 --> 01:53:56,200
Speaker 2: y'all gonna you know, obviously you're already killing it, but

2765
01:53:56,320 --> 01:53:57,920
Speaker 2: y'all gonna go even for the new question.

2766
01:53:58,320 --> 01:54:00,360
Speaker 4: And we had we you know, we all because of

2767
01:54:00,400 --> 01:54:01,439
Speaker 4: who we are, having choice.

2768
01:54:02,160 --> 01:54:04,200
Speaker 7: And when I heard about, of course, the podcast, I

2769
01:54:04,280 --> 01:54:06,680
Speaker 7: was like, I gotta wait for something, like I just

2770
01:54:06,760 --> 01:54:08,400
Speaker 7: can't get in here and talk like they're so big

2771
01:54:08,479 --> 01:54:11,160
Speaker 7: time and they reached so many people. I gotta make

2772
01:54:11,200 --> 01:54:13,800
Speaker 7: sure it's historic, you know. And so for me, it

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01:54:13,880 --> 01:54:16,920
Speaker 7: was like, yo, I gotta the book. If we're gonna

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01:54:16,920 --> 01:54:19,160
Speaker 7: be on, gotta release that here. So I just want

2775
01:54:19,200 --> 01:54:21,400
Speaker 7: to thank y'all for creating the type of space that

2776
01:54:21,560 --> 01:54:24,000
Speaker 7: we have somewhere to come to and we ain't got

2777
01:54:24,080 --> 01:54:26,160
Speaker 7: to go somewhere else to go and blow.

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01:54:26,000 --> 01:54:28,479
Speaker 3: Our stuff up. So I appreciate that. Make the book

2779
01:54:28,600 --> 01:54:30,719
Speaker 3: a New York Times bestseller, that's gonna happened.

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01:54:31,080 --> 01:54:34,760
Speaker 6: All I educated is the schools, the school at least

2781
01:54:34,760 --> 01:54:40,160
Speaker 6: one hundred copies for the kids, all the coaches, copies

2782
01:54:40,200 --> 01:54:41,800
Speaker 6: for the teams trying to buy and both.

2783
01:54:42,440 --> 01:54:45,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, all this out there. Yeah, already got relationships

2784
01:54:45,480 --> 01:54:47,600
Speaker 3: with the leads and yeah, oh yeah, we're working on

2785
01:54:47,680 --> 01:54:49,320
Speaker 3: all of that. Bro, We're working on all of that.

2786
01:54:49,800 --> 01:54:51,680
Speaker 4: As you can see. Shout out to my boys CP

2787
01:54:51,840 --> 01:54:53,560
Speaker 4: three from doing.

2788
01:54:55,040 --> 01:54:57,400
Speaker 3: Our guys, appreciate you. Michael B.

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01:54:57,560 --> 01:55:01,680
Speaker 7: Jordan's back Prime so we think you know you guys,

2790
01:55:02,200 --> 01:55:06,200
Speaker 7: everybody who you know blessed us. Man appreciate you'll hopefully

2791
01:55:06,240 --> 01:55:06,800
Speaker 7: when they see.

2792
01:55:06,680 --> 01:55:07,160
Speaker 4: Your name it.

2793
01:55:10,280 --> 01:55:13,080
Speaker 2: When and then when y'all invite me back, I can

2794
01:55:13,160 --> 01:55:14,200
Speaker 2: tell you the truth on someone.

2795
01:55:14,920 --> 01:55:16,440
Speaker 3: Remember he said, you don't even want to you know.

2796
01:55:18,040 --> 01:55:18,240
Speaker 9: Cap.

2797
01:55:18,640 --> 01:55:20,520
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, tell y'all the real deal.

2798
01:55:20,680 --> 01:55:27,760
Speaker 2: So there's only one show you're gonna Yeah, I'm sorry, seriously,

2799
01:55:28,160 --> 01:55:29,880
Speaker 2: from the bottom of my heart. Man, appreciate y'all.

2800
01:55:29,880 --> 01:55:30,000
Speaker 4: Man.

2801
01:55:30,360 --> 01:55:31,960
Speaker 2: Any last words you want to say to the audience,

2802
01:55:32,760 --> 01:55:35,440
Speaker 2: go by the book man. Where can they buy the book?

2803
01:55:35,760 --> 01:55:40,560
Speaker 2: The books available every Amazon airport. Great if you're getting that.

2804
01:55:40,720 --> 01:55:43,240
Speaker 2: If you at the Greyhoud. You grab your copy before

2805
01:55:43,280 --> 01:55:46,240
Speaker 2: you jump on everywhere stream my son's music. He's got

2806
01:55:46,280 --> 01:55:49,640
Speaker 2: a lot of good music right now for artists, you

2807
01:55:49,720 --> 01:55:52,560
Speaker 2: know what I mean. Hey, if y'all, if you're tired

2808
01:55:52,560 --> 01:55:54,920
Speaker 2: of watching historical archives that these brothers go, you can

2809
01:55:54,960 --> 01:55:59,200
Speaker 2: come watch a podcast and success a simple We're not

2810
01:55:59,560 --> 01:56:02,200
Speaker 2: talking with each other, but if you just so happened

2811
01:56:02,200 --> 01:56:03,960
Speaker 2: to have some extra time after you finished watching the

2812
01:56:04,000 --> 01:56:08,040
Speaker 2: greatest podcast, the greatest historical archives, come watch the podcast

2813
01:56:08,160 --> 01:56:11,240
Speaker 2: Secrets to Success. Everywhere you watch their podcast, I'm sure

2814
01:56:11,280 --> 01:56:14,200
Speaker 2: you can find ours doing this. So appreciate y'all.

2815
01:56:14,240 --> 01:56:16,880
Speaker 3: Man, Thank you, Thank Troy. How can I know?

2816
01:56:17,080 --> 01:56:20,000
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, Shout to all our earners, Shout everybody euyl University,

2817
01:56:20,320 --> 01:56:22,400
Speaker 8: shout to all our patrons on Patreon, and shout out

2818
01:56:22,400 --> 01:56:24,880
Speaker 8: to the merch team, and shout out to y'all again. Uh,

2819
01:56:25,080 --> 01:56:27,280
Speaker 8: like you said, the lineage that you've created and the

2820
01:56:27,320 --> 01:56:29,880
Speaker 8: people we come in contact with all eight one people.

2821
01:56:30,160 --> 01:56:31,640
Speaker 8: So shout to Nikki and Moves because they got to

2822
01:56:31,640 --> 01:56:32,320
Speaker 8: they got to show to.

2823
01:56:33,800 --> 01:56:38,320
Speaker 4: Historical I think they're working on may be practicing and

2824
01:56:39,200 --> 01:56:39,800
Speaker 4: we'll be doing.

2825
01:56:41,800 --> 01:56:43,000
Speaker 3: And obviously alexis here.

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01:56:43,000 --> 01:56:45,840
Speaker 8: That's all and now I see why there's a mural

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01:56:46,240 --> 01:56:49,680
Speaker 8: of Et the Great Yeah in the state. So man,

2828
01:56:50,160 --> 01:56:52,440
Speaker 8: so happy that we got just done. Appreciate, Thank you guys. Man,

2829
01:56:52,680 --> 01:56:53,560
Speaker 8: Thank you guys again.

2830
01:56:53,600 --> 01:56:56,640
Speaker 6: Your words are encouraging and yet you're very humble and

2831
01:56:56,760 --> 01:56:58,880
Speaker 6: that's something that's big to us because that's that's how

2832
01:56:58,920 --> 01:56:59,560
Speaker 6: we kind of move.

2833
01:56:59,640 --> 01:57:02,320
Speaker 3: So sometimes you don't meet people like that. Oh, no question.

2834
01:57:02,440 --> 01:57:05,120
Speaker 3: So you know you guys definitely down the earth. Say

2835
01:57:05,160 --> 01:57:05,879
Speaker 3: a few names.

2836
01:57:09,560 --> 01:57:11,560
Speaker 2: I would tell you, and every time they come in here,

2837
01:57:12,040 --> 01:57:14,200
Speaker 2: you really want to go viral tells Hollywood.

2838
01:57:14,240 --> 01:57:16,120
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. Who came in here? Fun?

2839
01:57:16,200 --> 01:57:25,600
Speaker 3: Y'all hate it? I really, I really appreciate y'all.

2840
01:57:25,640 --> 01:57:25,760
Speaker 9: Man.

2841
01:57:25,840 --> 01:57:28,160
Speaker 6: Thank you so much, and I'm sure we'll continue to

2842
01:57:28,680 --> 01:57:30,200
Speaker 6: do some great things together in the future.

2843
01:57:30,920 --> 01:57:32,400
Speaker 3: Thank you guys for rocking with us. For see you

2844
01:57:32,440 --> 01:57:35,320
Speaker 3: next week. Peace. You have a lady.

2845
01:57:38,520 --> 01:57:43,640
Speaker 5: My graduates from my school being forced back drops drop

2846
01:57:44,360 --> 01:57:46,000
Speaker 5: Mike drop back drop.

2847
01:57:57,280 --> 01:58:00,920
Speaker 14: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child

2848
01:58:01,000 --> 01:58:04,760
Speaker 14: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador

2849
01:58:05,040 --> 01:58:09,120
Speaker 14: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with

2850
01:58:09,240 --> 01:58:13,080
Speaker 14: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just

2851
01:58:13,240 --> 01:58:16,960
Speaker 14: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President

2852
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Speaker 14: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy Noman, the United States

2853
01:58:20,640 --> 01:58:25,400
Speaker 14: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border

2854
01:58:25,440 --> 01:58:28,960
Speaker 14: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over

2855
01:58:29,080 --> 01:58:32,240
Speaker 14: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you

2856
01:58:32,360 --> 01:58:36,160
Speaker 14: are here illegally, your next you will be fined nearly

2857
01:58:36,280 --> 01:58:40,240
Speaker 14: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned, and deported. You will

2858
01:58:40,360 --> 01:58:43,960
Speaker 14: never return. But if you register using our CBP home

2859
01:58:44,040 --> 01:58:47,360
Speaker 14: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.

2860
01:58:47,760 --> 01:58:52,440
Speaker 14: Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws,

2861
01:58:52,680 --> 01:58:54,600
Speaker 14: border and families.

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01:58:54,320 --> 01:58:56,720
Speaker 4: Will be protected. Sponsored by the United States Department of

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Speaker 4: Homeland Security.