WEBVTT - #531 - TK Kirkland 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.120 Yo, what's everybody's can meet in TK Kirkland, akat to 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:06.520 the MFK. That's right, the man, the myth, the legend. 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:10.200 Check me out on the next episode of Bootleg CAV. Listen, 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:13.000 I don't talk a lot demonstrations, been in the conversation. 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:14.400 I see you when I see it. 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:17.560 Hey, before we start the episode, we're gonna remind everybody, man, 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:19.880 we got one of the biggest radio shows in the country, 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:23.800 syndicated in almost one hundred cities all over. Shout out 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:26.840 to iHeartRadio all right, some of the latest cities that 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:28.760 we've been able to add. 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Man, we got 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:09.720 a special guest here, my guy TK Kirkland. Welcome back, sir. 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:13.000 Man you family. It's always a pleasure. It's always a pleasure. 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:17.480 Ice House, Pasadena, this weekend Saturday show one is sold out. 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.400 My first show sold out. I'm excited. 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:21.720 Yeah, but even really no radio play, you know what 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:23.440 I'm saying, or promotion. 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:27.200 You're like I would say, you know, I got to 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:29.800 see you live last year at the ice House. Yes, 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:33.399 and it's like it's like a different experience than any 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:35.120 other comedy show I've been to, because I feel like 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:37.959 usually go to a comedy show, it's like lighthearted laughs people. 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:44.520 Your comedy show is very much it's almost like it's 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:48.480 like church a bit, but also kind of like a 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.160 you walk out of there on some like damn. 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:55.960 I thought a lot, Yes exactly. I believe in impacting people. Yeah, 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.080 I think when you go to my show, you gotta 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:01.640 leave with something. Yeah, you have a platform people laugh, right, 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.800 but you have a platform you give Let's teach the 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:09.200 people something, especially some things they may not know, right, 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.160 So my job is to study, to read a lot, 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:14.520 to know about Karrent events, not just to know stuff 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.639 in America, but no stuff all over the world that 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:21.120 you may not have time to read about, or you 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:24.560 may not even know that doesn't even happen or it exists. 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:25.600 And that's what I do. 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:31.320 What is how often is your act always evolving? Always 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:33.520 like something pops up in the news, You're like, Oh, 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:34.200 I got what's my. 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:35.720 I got to put that in my show. 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.760 I have to give my take on it because I 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:44.200 don't write jokes. I get a topic, and when I 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.200 actually got the show, I just give I basically just 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:51.200 give my opinion on how I feel about something. But 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:54.960 I know to make it funny, to be facetious, to 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.360 be sarcastic in some areas of the information. 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:00.880 But that's that's what I try to do. 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.720 We are we are definitely in an interesting time right now. 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:11.280 I saw you recently go viral for saying that you're 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:15.280 inspired by Trump's willingness to win his will, his determined will. 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:15.679 Right. 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.640 I'm just curious because there is a lot going on, 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:20.680 there's a lot that there's a lot that a comedian 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:23.119 could talk about, especially with the Elon stuff, and there's 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:25.760 just a lot going on. What are your just thoughts 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:29.640 on the temperature of where the country is right now 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:30.600 from your perspective. 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.519 See the people follow me and the people who are listening. Now. 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.040 The thing that I want to explain to people, you 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.360 got to take your emotions out this game because you 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.680 will lose because it is a game. 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.160 It's a game. It's only four years. Every four years, 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.839 is the rules might change, and the rules might change. 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.640 Is it happens in your income taxes, it happens in 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.160 property taxes, it happens in the banks. They change the 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:59.160 laws every four years. So it's the Republicans against the Democrats. 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.760 You've got to take the emotion out the game and 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.960 be in it like the stock market, like the long game. 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:06.440 What's the long game? 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:09.960 I'm trying to teach people if you don't like an 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:15.360 Elon Musk or Donald Trump, use them to power you 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:20.720 to become greater financially and mentally. Why Because you're only 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:24.719 upset because you're not part of the one percent? Right. See, 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:26.720 if you use part of one and percent and when 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:30.240 they cut these certain taxes, you might not trip. 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:31.520 You ain't gonna trip. 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:35.039 You're gonna be happy to a motherfucker if you Eric Adams, 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:37.640 who's the mayor of New York City, you want to 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:41.040 align yourself with powerful people who can influence judges. 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:42.240 His case was dismissed today. 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:45.240 Yeah, it was dismissed this morning, and people was upset because, 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.200 oh my god, how can this happen to. 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:49.400 Eric Adams. 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.880 But the gold is fucking morals, the goals to win 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:54.360 every street hustle. 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:59.680 I know which they had money, like Donald Trump influenced 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:05.039 Donald Trump to get their case thrown out even though 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:08.600 the evidence shows that you're guilty. I'm not a fan 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.440 of Donald Trump. I'm make sure I'm clear. I just 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:15.400 like what the motherfucker has done. He strategically put the 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.000 judges in certain places. 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.080 He on some mafia gangster shit. 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:20.479 Thank you. 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:25.239 That's exactly what the effort is, right, He's putting district 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.240 attorneys in certain places because he knew that if his 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:29.240 case came up. 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:30.920 You don't think he talked to them people. 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.400 I'm gonna make you judge, but if my case comes 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:38.560 across your desk, delay, delay, delay. 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.520 So I'm trying to get people to understand I don't 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:43.000 give a fuck about Donald Trump. 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:46.559 I'm a young man who made it in this game, right, 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.599 who took care of myself. I'm closer than set to 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:53.719 seventy than i am forty seven years old. I want 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:58.640 people to understand, don't get emotional now. Van, to make 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:03.880 sure clear. Van something yesterday, yesterday that he's explained that 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:05.800 Trump wasn't a leader to him. 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:09.960 What he thought was a leader was who was a 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:11.080 person who's a termined. 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:14.279 Say a leader? You just said you inspired his inspiring? 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:19.679 He said, a woman and three children and tomato, tomato, 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:22.160 That has nothing to do with it. 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:23.480 I respect the woman. 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.280 My mother had to raise three kids because my dad 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.960 died when I was fourteen years old. Right, I respect 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:37.799 any woman, Black, Spanish, Italian, Morocco, African, if you're raising 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:41.680 three children, I'll support you. But Van, I just think 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:43.880 it was wrong that you brought in the female thing 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.440 to a message. I was trying to get cross the 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:50.080 message I'm trying to get crosses to any man, hustler, 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:55.400 woman out here working. Don't let nothing hold you down, 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:59.320 don't let nothing stop you from achieving if that's what 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.200 you want to achieve. Don't get me wrong, I got morals. 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:06.320 I love my grandchildren. I love my kids morally, but 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.320 you got to know when to say fuck morals and 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:09.920 get it done. 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:12.880 Yeah, I think that there's like if, like you said, 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.560 the emotion side of it is hard for a lot 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:17.040 of people to get over. But if you were to 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:20.520 just tell somebody like, hey, this person someone tried to 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:26.760 kill them and they prosecuted him. Some could say, drummed 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:31.360 up some felonies that weren't felonies, convicted them and still 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:36.360 you know, he won a position at a job. Just 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:39.760 remove the name Donald Trump. You'd be like, damn exactly. 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.400 Now that that's not to say you agree with anything 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.400 politically that he's doing, but it's like, if you just 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:46.880 look at it, you're like, yo, I at least at 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:52.320 least respect the fact that that that pushed through all 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.240 of the you know hand, that's amazing to me and 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:59.080 amazing if somebody did if somebody did that in the 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.080 streets and then it up being the CEO of a 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:02.600 company or somebody did that on the. 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.560 Last and you know, yes, I've been in front of 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:09.600 a more than one judge. I can relate to down 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:11.440 because I beat my cases right. 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.200 And it has nothing to do with the politics. It's like, yo, 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:16.720 if you just look at like, remove your. 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:21.960 Emotions from the situation, emotions, remove politics, and see what 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:24.200 I'm saying that if I talked about politics, I'm going 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:25.360 to tell you I don't like a lot of shit 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:26.400 that motherfucker is doing. 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:28.280 For sure. That's me right me that. 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:30.400 You do what you want to do, but me slash 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:33.080 shit he's doing out doing like if we talk in politics, 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:35.480 of course, but I want people to listen to comprehend, 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:37.199 not listen to reply. 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:40.160 And not like some people listen, don't listen with their ears, 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:41.960 they listen with their heart exactly. 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.800 And I'm trying to explain to you when you hear me, 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.080 you may not like what I'm saying, but just for 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.920 a moment, say, you know what, let me take a beat, 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:53.400 let me really think about where TK is coming from this. 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.360 Because I'm an old head. You know, years ago, when 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:59.400 a person elder spoke, you took the time to listen 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:02.800 to and make sure you understood what they were saying. Now, 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:04.760 don't get me wrong today kids and say, oh, get 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.320 respect older people, because the older people to make it. 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.760 We didn't care when we were young if an older 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:13.840 person spoke, you shut the f up. You listen to 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:15.959 what they had to say, you might walk away mad 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.240 and have an attitude, and that your parents and your 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:22.360 grandparents didn't care. It was what it was. And what 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.839 we're trying to do in these type of platforms is 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:29.000 give people the ability to win, because I tell them 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.840 in my show, the government don't give a fuck about you. 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.360 You listen to me, they don't care. 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.960 You better do whatever you gotta do to survive in 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.280 this game because we're all getting older. You running out 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.160 of opportunities. And I was taught years ago you don't 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:47.679 want to be old and be broke. You do not 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.240 want to be old and be broke. And you can't 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.280 depend on your children. I talk about that my stand 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:52.640 up too. 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:54.560 Yeah, I mean, and a lot of the stuff that 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:59.000 you know, people depend on Social Security. Who knows what's 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:00.439 gonna happen. You don't know what's going happened. 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:02.800 I mean, don't get me wrong, After four years, it 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:06.360 might go back to norm But Donald Trump is doing 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:10.280 so to me so much, damn it that and he's 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:11.959 only been there with two to three months. 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:13.439 It feels like two three years. 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:17.720 So imagine if nothing happens to the god, imagine what's 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.160 gonna happen by the time four years has done, He's 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.360 done all that, and I think he just goes asleep 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:24.760 and wake God and said I'm going to write the 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:25.560 executive order. 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:29.480 I would say if Donald Trump taught anybody anything and 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.440 how much the Democrats are full of shit, because explain 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:35.960 that part. If they governed the way Trump is governing, 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:41.360 If Joe Biden the first ninety days of him being 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:46.200 in office was firing off executive orders and putting his 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.840 dick on the table no matter what the optics were, 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:50.320 he might have won. Again. 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:55.880 What the difference between Biden and Donald Trump is that 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.160 Biden is old fashioned things. 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:03.840 He's like a traditional politician, doesn't want to mess up 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.599 the status crow, right, And I feel like the Democrats 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:11.800 need their Trump. I don't know. It might be Stephen A. Smithy. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:15.240 It's looking, Yeah, the thing what you said is dead on. 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:19.160 I'm ahead. So I moved differently. 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:21.800 I still got a little the young kid thing going 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:23.800 on to how to move, but you hit it right 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:27.319 on the nail. By then moved in a traditional way. 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:31.640 And if he really was for what he wanted to do, 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.560 he would have said, if everybody, I'm gonna make this 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:38.240 happen on the executive order, executive order, executive. 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.120 Order, and just get and do some gangster ship and 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:43.280 do some gangs shit. And Donald Trump is saying, fuck 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:45.640 it because neither side plays fair with each other. 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:47.520 And I truly. 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:55.120 Believe they should really get rid of the Republican Party 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.440 and the Democratic Party that would be And let me 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:02.200 try to tell you why, because every four years it's 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:03.679 like a damn competition. 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:04.800 It is like a super Bowl. 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.120 It gets tribal, you know, then you got the blue 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:12.160 and red on the news. You know, if somebody don't 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:14.040 like something, they shut down the government and so the 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:18.520 people get hurt. So here's what I'm proposing. I'm proposing 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:23.400 that we cut all that out. We regulate capitalism. I 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.520 don't think rent should be thirty five four thousand dollars 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.080 for a two bedroom apartment, right, we cut out the 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.240 five hundred thousand dollars cars and cars to two undred thousand. 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:32.880 Right. 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.960 Whatever you made to this point, you won. But if 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:40.560 you're gonna make America great again, let's go back to 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:44.359 the fifties when a four bedroom home, two car garage 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:46.280 was four thousand something thouars a month. 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:48.760 Yeah, I mean a year, when the middle class could 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:50.839 afford a home and car. Let's do that. 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.560 Right, because too many people are homeless. That's gone now, 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.760 too many people, it's too far gone. Nobody everybody's talking 0:12:57.760 --> 0:12:59.480 about eggs and all that. No, let's ta get the 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:00.679 people up to the street. How we get to be 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:04.440 on the street is that we make things livable. Milk 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:05.439 one day. 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:07.800 It's gonna be thirty forty dollars. 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.600 I may not be here, but I've said I knew 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:12.440 when milk was seventy five cent. 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:12.920 Yeah. 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:15.160 I saw Trump say something like he doesn't he didn't 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:18.120 care that he did, like he could care less. The 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.160 car prices are going to go up because of these tariffs. 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:24.960 But it's like, hey, man, if your basic needs aren't 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:29.160 even affordable anymore, yes, and the idea of you having 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:32.280 an entry level home is gone. Like the American dream 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:34.840 was like cool, I'm going to get a career and 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.280 I'm gonna have enough money to at least buy a 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:40.640 home that's out going. But now you can't even be like, 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.520 and now I'm gonna get a car, even though buying 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:45.439 a car probably is in a good financial decision, having 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:47.280 a car note you know, obviously that's a whole separate 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:51.520 but just the idea of being able to buy a car. Wow, 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.920 it's so expensive to get groceries, while it's so expensive 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.120 to even think about buying a home. And then you 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:01.400 have all these corporate landlords that are just fucking up rent. 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:04.440 I mean, it is, it is insane what's going on. 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.839 And the goal when you was young was to get 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.840 a government job, and that's that was like secure, you 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:12.400 was set for life. 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:17.360 That's gone. And we have yet to see the effects 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:20.680 of all of these people getting laid off. I don't 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.440 think the economy hasn't seen. What you think about it. 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.680 Think about all those people, all that labor for us 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:27.840 that is currently unemployed, trying to figure out what their 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.360 new ship is. Yes, it's gonna come because even if 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:34.080 they got a severance whatever, that that's gonna run. 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:37.640 Out and what so, because let's give them some knowledge. 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.080 If you do have a severance, the goal is hold 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:40.480 on to. 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:44.280 That motherfucker money like it's you gotta double dip. 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.160 You got a double dip, and if you spend a dollar, 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.400 let's put back two dollars because if you just spending. 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:54.960 Yeah, I tell people, if you get a severance ever 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.160 in any career, you get let go and they give 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:00.320 you six months severance whatever it is, three months, Sean, 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:02.000 I don't care if you got to get in your 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.280 car and drive uber double dip that whole time. 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:06.880 Do not spend that money. 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.240 Because that six months could turn into twelve months. 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.720 Yes, do not spend that money once it's gone. 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.640 So wrap And that's what people what I'm saying, people 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:17.040 don't respect money. 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:17.880 Now. 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:20.920 I don't think people don't understand it. It's not very 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:22.760 I think most people who work with their hands, like 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:24.440 my dad's like a perfect example, Like my dad's like 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.600 a og, but like he's very like ignorant when it 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.480 comes to financial literacy. He's the kind of guy who 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.360 will like pull money out of his house to go 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.320 buy a car brand new and be like, look, I 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:37.720 got a new car for mom. Happened when I was 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:38.040 a kid. 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:43.280 Yeah, that's insane for sure. Like you got to have discipline. 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:44.640 You gotta have discipline, and you got to have the 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:48.280 the I feel like they'll want the need to try 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.920 to learn, to try to add knowledge to whatever you 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.320 think you know. I think you said it earlier. It's 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:57.960 like remove all your emotions from whoever's the president and 0:15:58.000 --> 0:15:59.080 just learn how to play the game. 0:15:59.240 --> 0:15:59.960 Learn to play the game. 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:01.200 It's like cool. 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:02.880 And I tell people all the time, you may not 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.360 like what I'm saying, but if you live long enough, 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.840 if you lived to be in your sixties, one day, 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.320 you will say T. K. Kirklham was right, because you 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.360 have to have lived to understand me. 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:13.840 If you in your. 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:17.520 Thirties and forties, like, you're a rare situation. I mean, 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.080 you know my son very well, and that's why I 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:21.720 call you my son. And my son is very very 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:26.040 brilliant and just like you. So your surrounding, the people 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:29.240 you hung around all this for your age and he's 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:33.040 thirty eight. Lays though it's very mature to the point 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:37.720 that you don't argue with a person based on their opinion. 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:40.120 You are so knowledgeable that. 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.640 Even if you don't understand it, you could see what 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:44.080 that person is talking about. 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.560 And that's a gift. Yeah, I think just because like 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.200 at the end of the day, I feel like there 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:54.240 was a point in time where I was very narrow 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:57.360 minded that if I didn't align with somebody on something 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:00.560 that I just would assume that they that I would 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.160 write them off. That would like that was like a 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:05.879 younger version of me. Where if I did not align 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:09.720 with you, let's say politically, I would automatically write you 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:12.000 off and have my mind made up about that person 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.080 in my head, like all right, and I feel like 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:19.439 most of America is still that way. Yes, And it's like, now, 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:22.320 you gotta first of all, if you're ever gonna make 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:24.200 any progress in this world, you got to understand the 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:26.440 other side, the other perspective you gotta have. You gotta 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:28.160 be empathetic to opinions that aren't your own. 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:30.000 Yep, so true, so true. 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:33.359 Belly, who's a rapper, he had a line in a 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:38.960 freestyle where he said, hero villain, it's all perspective. It's like, hey, man, 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:44.520 for every terrorist organization there is, they're freedom fighters. 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:45.840 Yes, you know what I'm saying. 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:50.200 I agree for every we're the terrorists to a lot 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.840 of people. Yes, the United States are terrorists most of 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:54.879 the rest of the world. 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:59.560 You know what I mean. We are famous because of war. Yes, 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:00.840 that's it. 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:04.640 That is our number one. Our two exports in this country. 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:10.080 Our culture, yes, movies, music, pop culture, influence, and weapons. 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:11.679 That's it. 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:13.320 Because when you think about. 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:16.560 The great Kadaffi, shout out to him, Shout out to 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.919 Kadafi and for the people who understand, let me educate you. 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:26.159 Kadafi was so powerful and he loved his people so 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.800 much they killed him that the government did not like that. 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:30.400 Yeah. 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:33.639 See, you didn't have any You didn't have any electric 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:34.359 bills there you. 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:36.240 Have to pay for electric. If you bought a car, 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:38.359 they helped you put the money. They buy your car. 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:40.200 If you had a house, they didn't want you to Yeah, 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:41.320 they didn't want you to be in debt. 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:42.600 They didn't want you to be in debt. If you 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:44.680 came over here to go to school, they will pay 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:49.800 for your education. What got America upset is when Kadafi 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:52.760 wanted to back have his own currency for Africa, could 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:57.320 go for Africa. Yeah, back by gold and America said what. 0:18:57.359 --> 0:18:59.440 Yeah, you ain't fucking with the US dollar And they 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:00.000 fucked him. 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:04.359 Love y'all and they get away with the ship. Yeah. 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:08.960 It's it's funny too, because Obama did an interview sometime 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:11.120 after he was out of office and he said that 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:14.359 the number one regret that he had was destabilizing that 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:20.080 country and getting him killed. Yes, because well think about 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:23.320 what happened after that. Isis was born. There There is 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:27.800 no Isis without Gadafi being killed exactly. They destabilize that 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:32.119 that region, and then isis was born, and then we 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:34.359 had another thing. I mean, the same thing is happening 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:37.560 right now Syria. Yes, we just we just took a 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:40.640 sod out who was an enemy of the United States. 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:42.639 Whether or not you think he's a good person a 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:46.960 bad person, that's an opinion, yes, But for the most part, 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:49.520 I mean, that was a stable country, yes, right, it 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:53.920