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Speaker 1: What up is d j e f This is drink Champs?

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Speaker 1: Yapp y'all gonna make up now now Eve. When it

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Speaker 1: comes to entrepreneura, he spell. Don't know when it comes

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Speaker 1: to a person. When I've read that his first job

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Speaker 1: a very fortunate company. He has grinded. He has continue

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Speaker 1: at all. And if you don't know what we talk about,

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Speaker 1: we're talking about the shop. Take first person. Thank you

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Speaker 1: I got you here you go because I knew you're

426
00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:16,520
Speaker 1: gonna be something. How how do how do you how

427
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:18,879
Speaker 1: do you determine things like that? How did how did

428
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,040
Speaker 1: you you know? Because l L is like a different

429
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:22,680
Speaker 1: type of person, like you know, for you to allow

430
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:24,960
Speaker 1: yourself with l L. And this is a guy who's

431
00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,960
Speaker 1: you know, been around for thirty thirty five years. Yeah

432
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,720
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So how do you allign

433
00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:31,320
Speaker 1: with people like that? How do you see star is

434
00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:33,520
Speaker 1: m in a person? Well? L was always a big

435
00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:36,080
Speaker 1: star to me. He was he was already a huge

436
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:39,720
Speaker 1: star show. It wasn't me having an opportunity in regards

437
00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,440
Speaker 1: to me helping him out. It was him reaching down

438
00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:45,280
Speaker 1: and helping me out. Um. And like whenever we go

439
00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:48,440
Speaker 1: after mentors or other people, it's what's in it for them,

440
00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 1: you know. I had to make it very advantageous to him.

441
00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:55,000
Speaker 1: So what I had to do was dress everybody around him. First.

442
00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,200
Speaker 1: I dressed all the bodyguards, the big dudes with the

443
00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:02,640
Speaker 1: five exits who would never nobody ever made anything flo show.

444
00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:04,360
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, they're wearing it now, and they're

445
00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:06,120
Speaker 1: wearing it more because you dressed a little skinny kid

446
00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:08,600
Speaker 1: with the funny mustache, you know, the skateboard. He throwing

447
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:10,639
Speaker 1: it away a week later, but you dressed the big

448
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:13,440
Speaker 1: dude who can't get nothing. He winning it for a

449
00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 1: year straight after that. And then he always in front

450
00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:17,879
Speaker 1: of the club or pushing somebody out the way to

451
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 1: walking Bill. Yeah. So after that, L was like, hey, yo, baby,

452
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:23,840
Speaker 1: what's up with me? And I didn't want to bother you. Baby.

453
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,120
Speaker 1: I didn't bother but I got a couple of shirts

454
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:30,080
Speaker 1: you right there. So I had to make it really

455
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 1: flopped at him. And then I went after you always

456
00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:34,680
Speaker 1: go after the local lead. I went after round me

457
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:47,200
Speaker 1: getting everybody always sorry, yeah everybody, Yeah, don't worry about

458
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,560
Speaker 1: I don't make sure the law of that. Everybody always

459
00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,800
Speaker 1: wanting what's that? What's hell? Partner was? He was? He

460
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:55,679
Speaker 1: a Parker. That was the little part of my spokes

461
00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,639
Speaker 1: first and who who who are who? Who got to

462
00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:01,760
Speaker 1: partake in any profit afterwards? And it was because he's

463
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 1: a smart businessman. He was like, I don't want to

464
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 1: be around with the losses there. I won't only be

465
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 1: around in the case apart deal kind of like rosy

466
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,760
Speaker 1: deal on the upside of stuff. And he and he

467
00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:12,960
Speaker 1: that's why he went out and busted his ass. And

468
00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:16,879
Speaker 1: that's why obviously, um we were very beneficial of that

469
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 1: because after he wore everybody want to wear, everybody want

470
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:24,480
Speaker 1: to rock out? You know that was Flatform and Russell

471
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,200
Speaker 1: involved at any point or did you ever trying to

472
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,280
Speaker 1: get through because Platform was a company to that. Flatform

473
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,159
Speaker 1: also existed first. But Russell came to us and was

474
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:37,359
Speaker 1: like a man, you know, I know the rector business.

475
00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:39,840
Speaker 1: I don't know this business that well. And because Russell's

476
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:41,600
Speaker 1: a legend to me, you know, we um we actually

477
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:45,160
Speaker 1: distributed his clothes and in Europe, and then we hooked

478
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,719
Speaker 1: him up with the guy who would end up really

479
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:50,920
Speaker 1: helping him so um so, and then we were obviously

480
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 1: very happy about that. We always wanted to see other

481
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:57,920
Speaker 1: cats who were part of the world be able to

482
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,600
Speaker 1: benefit off of it, you know, so so we would

483
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,520
Speaker 1: because you know, you know, listen, man, you can't stop

484
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:06,360
Speaker 1: anybody already got dried, and you know you always want

485
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:09,120
Speaker 1: to be part of the bridge if you can. That's

486
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 1: what all the hate is out there. Who don't realize that.

487
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: Was there any rival reason amongst these these brands that

488
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:16,680
Speaker 1: were kind of competing for the same market. Absolutely, and

489
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:18,480
Speaker 1: you know, so we were able to really you know,

490
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 1: cross colors and Calk and I broke around for us.

491
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 1: They inspired us, they opened the door. We came in

492
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:25,639
Speaker 1: and took it to another level. And we came in

493
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 1: right after they were slowing down a little bit, right

494
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 1: before Paul Russa really got to blast. So we had

495
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,240
Speaker 1: a really good run at it. But when we really

496
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,480
Speaker 1: saw it going and they saw to get going, of course,

497
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:40,399
Speaker 1: there's only limited space in any store for any brand, right,

498
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:42,400
Speaker 1: so of course they would they would be the rivalry.

499
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 1: It wouldn't be a rivalry in the streets with us.

500
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:46,879
Speaker 1: We wouldn't have no issues. You know. We wasn't like

501
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,920
Speaker 1: y'all caps will be like yo man, East Coast, West Coast.

502
00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:54,359
Speaker 1: You know, I would be like extra sec. I'm not,

503
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 1: but you know, but of course it was a friendly robbery.

504
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I put you know, I introduced Paul to

505
00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,919
Speaker 1: a guy named Jeff Tweete who runs his company, because

506
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:07,200
Speaker 1: you know, I knew I couldn't take Jeff Tweete on

507
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 1: and I wanted him to help up. I didn't think

508
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 1: Puff was gonna be that hot. But again, you can't stop.

509
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 1: You can't stop people. But yeah, of course it was

510
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 1: always a friendly business. I'm showing your businesses, who's selling

511
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:19,879
Speaker 1: a song? This is my man, but he's killing it,

512
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, on my own evil what

513
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:23,560
Speaker 1: she's killing it. And it seems that these brands, the

514
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,399
Speaker 1: brands you mentioned, they learned off for you guys, because

515
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 1: the partner's stores weren't carrying like hip hop clothing until

516
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,960
Speaker 1: like tail end of the nineties, early two thousand. Because

517
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 1: I had a clothing store, and I remember I had

518
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,440
Speaker 1: to I went out of business once locally was bird

519
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:41,080
Speaker 1: Iss and then became Macy's. When they started carrying it,

520
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,399
Speaker 1: I couldn't even compete with those marks happened. So so

521
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:45,880
Speaker 1: first of all, a lot of those big stores wouldn't

522
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 1: carry our brand. I even heard something like, Yo, there's

523
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 1: who are black guys on the hang tag? People don't

524
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,359
Speaker 1: come and have shootouts, they're gonna start shoplifting. But a

525
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 1: local store like, yeah, we would support always the local entrepreneur.

526
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:00,760
Speaker 1: Because the local entrepreneur, they it would tell they why

527
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 1: ambassador they were, They would as soon as they sell

528
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 1: stuff in one week they called back, I need more

529
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: Macy's or one of the big guys are gonna call

530
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,000
Speaker 1: back every quarter or whatever the case it. What they

531
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 1: found out is like two years into it, they found

532
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,399
Speaker 1: out the guys like you, who had one store now

533
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,640
Speaker 1: had six, and they were like, yeah, we're missing the mark.

534
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,119
Speaker 1: And that's why they kind of let us all of

535
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 1: us kind of in at the same around the same time,

536
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 1: because they were like, we need this section because we

537
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,320
Speaker 1: can't have the kids going down the block or staying

538
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: in the hood and not coming here. So that's how

539
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:34,920
Speaker 1: you know, everybody gets on everything and something like what

540
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 1: cryptocurrency today and see today everybody's gonna it's gonna take

541
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:40,640
Speaker 1: a while to bubble and then you know they're gonna

542
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 1: they're gonna get on it. Now, what did food will

543
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:44,479
Speaker 1: Ever do? Like because you see how like if we're

544
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 1: a rocket where they sold like they say they sold

545
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,359
Speaker 1: it from like two hundred three hundred million, like the

546
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:53,359
Speaker 1: food Boever soup never, So we never so we always

547
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 1: we still have the brands. Yeah, so we know we

548
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 1: never sold a brand. We sold. We sold the territory

549
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:03,439
Speaker 1: of China. Know in Japan, I think China and Korea

550
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:09,360
Speaker 1: that just the territory like that means we can't distribute those,

551
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 1: just that those so they can make whatever they put

552
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 1: that only that specific area and that area. Poolble was

553
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 1: more like a skate type of brand. Oh god, they

554
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:23,680
Speaker 1: reinterpreted a different way over that. You you ever looking

555
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 1: at that and be like you look at you know

556
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,359
Speaker 1: it probably see like where it goes and be like

557
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:30,920
Speaker 1: because essentially it's like it's like an album. It's like

558
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 1: it's like how we make an album, like after we

559
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,120
Speaker 1: give it to the world, it's not ours. No thought

560
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 1: we would be more than maybe a little closing store

561
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 1: where well my friends and I, you know, we can

562
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: all work together and feed out families. I never thought

563
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 1: we have anything bigger than that. What was the moment

564
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 1: where you was like, holy ship, we're here. Um. We

565
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 1: had just opened a couple of store in South Africa.

566
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 1: And I remember I didn't go on that trip in

567
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 1: South Aba. I didn't go on that trip because I

568
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 1: always saw at the first hit pop pop like yeah,

569
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: we're done year three, we're done year four, and it

570
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: lasted probably about eight years. Super hot, right, And I

571
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 1: remember I didn't go on that trip. I had to

572
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 1: do something else. And I remember Mandela calling my partners, Okay, y'all,

573
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: y'all right. One of my only regrets. Man. You know, man,

574
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 1: we can slow down there. You get the clubhouse, I'd

575
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 1: all those Yeah, the real chair colongs with me bad

576
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: bring so bad calls, called my boys and they're going

577
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 1: me Mandela and I never got to meet him, um,

578
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 1: but I realized at that point, yeah, we're making some noise. Wow.

579
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: Did you ever get to be tupac Na? Damn me neither.

580
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 1: When he got super hot, I was, I was East

581
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 1: Coast dude. And the only time I almost it got

582
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: to meet him. I forgot what happened, you know, we

583
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 1: were throwing a big party on the West Coast and

584
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:08,480
Speaker 1: think for like Lenny slewis for somebody, and I was

585
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 1: I was dressing, you know me, I was dressing everybody.

586
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 1: But all of a sudden, you know, a lot of

587
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 1: East Coast castle I forgot if it was Grammys or whatever,

588
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:18,479
Speaker 1: and I had to make a decision that I wouldn't

589
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: allow um death row at the party. And just because

590
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: we were dressing everybody, we didn't want the last we

591
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: want the thing to be heard that something happened at

592
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 1: the foodal party. And that was the only time that

593
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 1: I don't want him. Did you Detroit from Pop thousand

594
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 1: and one that work for footballs? No? No, no, not

595
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 1: Troy no more. He Actually Troy did work for all

596
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: of us in some sense, because when we would do

597
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: these seventh or six fashion shows that we've never had

598
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,479
Speaker 1: an opportunity to do, we would need somebody to make

599
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 1: the clothes in a week and just front like that

600
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 1: was the new line coming out, and Troitan Potots the

601
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 1: one wouldn't make all the clothes and we'd be like, yo,

602
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 1: that's a new line, and then we'll see who we

603
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 1: get press off of. And then we would run the line.

604
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 1: We wouldn't actually be designing that line until we see

605
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 1: how many times we get pressed off this one piece

606
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:06,720
Speaker 1: of that piece, and then we make like I said

607
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 1: that capsules. It's like um with me, right, It's like

608
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: I got kind of like two different life, right, I

609
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 1: got the Wrapper life Love the Rapper life, and now

610
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 1: I have this after Life after rap uh uh, this podcast.

611
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: Like we're doing around and often people always ask me,

612
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: like what what which one you like more? If you

613
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: which one you like more, the shock Tank Life or

614
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 1: the fool Boo Life Shock Tank Life. Okay, damn you

615
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 1: said that, mad fast. You're gonna take some time, you know,

616
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 1: because when when when food was really had, I had

617
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: three hundred four hundred employees and then globally I had

618
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 1: about twelve hundred. And I think it's supposed to make

619
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: some noise for that. And when you become a shrink

620
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 1: shrink opose Okay, okay, when you said you shrink, where

621
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: we've come, fri you've been you've always you've always been

622
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 1: concerned with why you didn't get to make it where

623
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: you thought you deserve, whether because you were female, because

624
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 1: you were personal color, because you didn't have a regular education.

625
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: So I would go out and I would want my

626
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 1: employees to know if I had to fire them, I

627
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 1: had to fire them, or I had to give them

628
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: an advance. To give my advance, but I wanted to

629
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 1: know it was on the merit of who they were,

630
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 1: not the color of their skin. And I never wanted

631
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 1: to hand it down to other uh mental management, because

632
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:40,479
Speaker 1: you don't know how they were going to convey your message.

633
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 1: So you become a shrink, right you you start to

634
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 1: worry about why people are working or not working. Now,

635
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: shark tank, I get to invest in other companies who

636
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 1: they already were founded a year or two years, five

637
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: years before they even met me. Ten years with those companies, right,

638
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a minority. Uh stay colder. I get to

639
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: just work and deal with you off your performance and

640
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 1: the DNA that you had already set for your company

641
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: was none of my business. Also, I think that you

642
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 1: know Sartank one of the top shows watched UM Kids

643
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:18,360
Speaker 1: and Parents Together, that's one of the top shows watched

644
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: or network kids five to fifteen years old. And we

645
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 1: don't often see people like us who are successful and

646
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 1: they didn't have this great education and they didn't go

647
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 1: out in the streets and do some crazy shit. And

648
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: if I can, if I can let it. If the

649
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 1: next Damon John, excuse me, and not even Damon John

650
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: sque me if the next Oprah was Steve Jobs or

651
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 1: Bill Gates is in their house and their little pajamas,

652
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: eating some cheerios, watching me on TV. Like I did

653
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 1: my job, right, So I think that that. And I

654
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: don't have any inventory. Before I used to worry about

655
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 1: moving a million pairs of jeans. Now my inventories right

656
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: here and right here, all right here, that's my inventory.

657
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 1: And um, you're in the food come putting right now

658
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: right food company, al Baba Bagas Bonus rips. That got that?

659
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: That's a time twister. You try that after three more? Well?

660
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 1: So was it ever like an investment? You can't brush

661
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 1: over it? Like the beginning of Shark Tank, Like I

662
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:21,839
Speaker 1: want to know, Yeah, did that whole this show even

663
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 1: start like it was? Mark Cupids? Are there? No? No? Not?

664
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 1: Mark Burnett produced like he had he has survival practice

665
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 1: all that, And it was already a number one show

666
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 1: in Japan, in London and Canada. It's called dragons Den

667
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 1: and they and they brought the format over here. It's

668
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 1: a Sony format. They brought it over there. Mark is

669
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 1: a brick so he loved it already from London, and

670
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,439
Speaker 1: then he brought the show here and renamed the Shark

671
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: Tank because I think they had it in another country,

672
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 1: I think Australia. At first they had it under dragons Den,

673
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 1: and the way knew what the hell of dragon was

674
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 1: in that country, And if you would have brought it

675
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,399
Speaker 1: here named the dragons then it was already hard enough.

676
00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 1: The name of Shark taking exactly show. So absolutely, that's

677
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: how I started. They called me if they saw me,

678
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 1: I think on Donnie Deutsch or CNBC or MSNBC talking

679
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 1: about business, and they're like, yo, you know this guy

680
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: knows how to break down the pitch. He has a

681
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 1: couple of bucks, he's an investor. I want him on

682
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:17,399
Speaker 1: the show again, something else like Booble that I thought

683
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:23,840
Speaker 1: would never work. So they approach you with this idea,

684
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:25,800
Speaker 1: now that you gotta shoot the pilot first, or you

685
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 1: guys go straight into the season. Now we go to

686
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 1: shoot the pilot. But first they tell me I can't

687
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:31,760
Speaker 1: be on any of the show. And I already promised

688
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 1: the Kardashians I'd be on the show. So I told him, no,

689
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do it, and then I get uh. Then

690
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the produce of the Kardashians like, yeah,

691
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 1: we don't want you to show them more. You don't

692
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,879
Speaker 1: really appeal to the people, you know that we're trying

693
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 1: to get the hell out of. So you get cut

694
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:50,440
Speaker 1: out of the Kardashians. However, you know what I found out,

695
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:53,400
Speaker 1: Chloe found out that I was going to turn down

696
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 1: Shark because of her ah and then she says she

697
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: would never get in my way. Let's make some noise

698
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:02,399
Speaker 1: for Chloe got I think that's noise and at all.

699
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 1: Two three A sweet story. Man. I'm glad to hear

700
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 1: to hear a person like you of your statures come

701
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 1: on here and speak, you know, uh, positivity towards that way,

702
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: because it's I just don't hear it. I don't know

703
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: what I'm me listening. They're screwed up people out here,

704
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 1: and they you know, there's a lot of foul people

705
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 1: out here, but you got to give it up when

706
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 1: you know somebody's doing it the right way, you know,

707
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 1: and Christiana doing the right way. And I ain't mad

708
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 1: at them. You know, they're getting their paper and why

709
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 1: while we getting mad at them? Right exactly. You have

710
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 1: opinion on Kanye and like sometimes his thoughts being out

711
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:48,319
Speaker 1: of this world, you know, not really, Um, I think

712
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: that you know he I think he's already said everything

713
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 1: he needs to say about himself by emotionally he goes Shuler.

714
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: I think the man is a genius. Um. I think

715
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 1: has he said some wrong stuff that I've been offended?

716
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 1: That absolutely? But you know what if the cameras were

717
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 1: on me all the time, of course I said some

718
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 1: wrong stuff too, right, But but I'm not one of

719
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 1: the biggest stars in the world. You know what I'm saying.

720
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:17,839
Speaker 1: So you got a motivation, you know album coming up?

721
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 1: I got a motivation the track I got someone like

722
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 1: spoken Wren. I do a couple of speeches or people scorting.

723
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna insult true artists or somebody that's you.

724
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:27,880
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm doing my speech because you know what

725
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 1: I think. I think a lot of times when I'm

726
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 1: when I'm doing the tracks, like when I want to

727
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: do these speaking engagements. If you hear it once, you've

728
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 1: heard a million times to me. But I remember I

729
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,880
Speaker 1: was driving down the street one day of mlk's birthday,

730
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: and I heard obviously one of the greatest speeches that

731
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 1: I ever been written. Somebody did some crazy beat to it,

732
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 1: and I was like, I can hear that Mark Luther

733
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: King's speech on the treadmill train. I'm driving the car.

734
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: It's getting me amp you want to kill it? That day,

735
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 1: so I gave a bunch of producers a lot of

736
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,920
Speaker 1: my speeches and it's obviously never gonna compare to m okay,

737
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,839
Speaker 1: but um, they put some stuff together and just started

738
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 1: getting good responses and people like and I give them

739
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 1: away with my books or you know, the people people perchasing,

740
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 1: whatever the cases. But I always wanted to add more

741
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 1: than just my books. You know that Obama appointed you

742
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 1: the brand ambassador. Yeah, Obama appointed me um Presidential Ambassador

743
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 1: Global Entrepreneurship. Okay, but how did this happen? They did

744
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 1: he call your phone? And did you hang up when

745
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 1: you say it's Obama? Because you like, come on, I

746
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 1: would like I wish I could play a big time

747
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 1: like that. It was his band's man, Man's Man? Who

748
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 1: are me? I was removed? What you what you're damn?

749
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,280
Speaker 1: But I did get to go with him to Kenya.

750
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 1: I want him to Cuba, I want with him to

751
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 1: another conference. Um and yeah, in in California. And my

752
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: job as a presidential abassador is to let people understand

753
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 1: and they can pick up their iPhone and make a

754
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,359
Speaker 1: million dollars or or if you're in Kenya, you need

755
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 1: only twenty five dollars a month to keep the lights on.

756
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 1: If if we can show you what entrepreneurship is and

757
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 1: how to how to do it, then domestic violence is

758
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 1: going to go down. Right if you need twenty five

759
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 1: dollars a month, Like if your wife keeps telling you, listen,

760
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 1: I need money to take care of the baby, to

761
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: take whatever case, and you and you stress you ain't

762
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,279
Speaker 1: got it, a lot of things gonna happen. And then

763
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:21,839
Speaker 1: also the people are gonna pray of for you. They're

764
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 1: gonna be like yo, just like they do whether it's

765
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:26,280
Speaker 1: in the gang in New York City or in California.

766
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: It's like, Yo, you need some money, take this and

767
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 1: go down the block and do this for me. They're

768
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 1: gonna do that too to other people. Right. So, but

769
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 1: if you show people there's real ways to make money,

770
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:40,360
Speaker 1: then they don't become liabilities, they become taxpayers. They become

771
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:43,279
Speaker 1: mentors in the community. We see it happen all the time.

772
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: So that was my job globally to to to do

773
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 1: that for the president bottom and so you you you,

774
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 1: but you got to be them. Yeah yeah, traveling, traveling,

775
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 1: getting smoking blog with them like no, no, no, But

776
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 1: now you know, random bastard of Spotify to how are

777
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 1: you getting music money as well? Spotify? Yeah that's Shopify,

778
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: shop by that Spotify, oh ship. Yeah, definitely I wrote

779
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,799
Speaker 1: it wrong. I was like, you know all the music

780
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 1: nig Yeah, you know, I used old mistakes to president

781
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 1: like yo, yo, you know what Shopify the platform, anybody

782
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:29,320
Speaker 1: had to have something when they're trying to sell something

783
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 1: that's that's like the on store Shopify they can open up, Yeah,

784
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 1: shopping for Holy ship, you are just getting money from everywhere?

785
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:41,480
Speaker 1: Do you like? Um? How how because they say a

786
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: millionaire has to have seven uh forms? Is that something

787
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 1: you agree with? Yeah? I mean I do. I don't

788
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: know a counter like what's the seven? I always say,

789
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 1: how are we maximizing what we're currently doing here? You know? So? Um,

790
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:02,480
Speaker 1: give example, like if the books are doing really well,

791
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna come out with the curriculum to follow

792
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 1: us up with the books that I'm also put the

793
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 1: tracks to follow up with the books. I'm gonna do

794
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 1: hopefully some kind of dock or show off of it,

795
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:15,920
Speaker 1: and then you know, I may do one all the

796
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:18,640
Speaker 1: or all the two things off of it, but we're

797
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: gonna try to maximize. You know, this is open that

798
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,319
Speaker 1: that brand I was trying to say, But don't don't

799
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:29,040
Speaker 1: forget we have some future entrepreneurs. It takes you're wanting,

800
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 1: no problem. They both white, they both fights. Got damn

801
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 1: it because we all celebrate whatever that was. Yeah, yeah,

802
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 1: that's the brand new one. Go ahead, dad, god damnit

803
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 1: me your wait, hold on, hold on hard okay, okay,

804
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 1: hold on, hor because I'm gonna do it more a

805
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 1: real one. This is a real This is a real one.

806
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 1: I don't believe in these nicks at all. They're gonna

807
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: embarrass the whole attack of you on this show right now.

808
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:58,239
Speaker 1: And we all know this. This is a real one

809
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 1: right now now, now listen, please, this is something that

810
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 1: I've been working on personally. Right I didn't want to

811
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 1: go to anybody for help because I just wanted to

812
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 1: do it on own, just like like a record there,

813
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 1: so you got it. So what I proposed this this

814
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 1: I wanted to come out with my own sneaker line right,

815
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:22,880
Speaker 1: my own, my very own, that's my prototype, that's my

816
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 1: very own. These are called the Hamptons because this is

817
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: what you now. It's not gonna be black, It's gonna

818
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 1: be white because in Hamptons, you know, the Hamptons. That's

819
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 1: version of mallible. Right. So, but it doesn't stop here.

820
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: This is obviously a no repair of sneakers. But I

821
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:41,800
Speaker 1: want to be like the first company. I want to

822
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 1: be Nike, meaning I want to give I want to

823
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 1: give everybody who's not gonna give people a deal, but

824
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:52,239
Speaker 1: who has hundreds of thousands of fans, um like like

825
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 1: like a Jim Jones. I don't see Jim Jones ever

826
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,440
Speaker 1: be and it will be in a Nike being or

827
00:42:57,520 --> 00:42:59,839
Speaker 1: with new Balance. But guess what what if I give

828
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 1: him Jones his own sneakers under my brand? Yeah? I

829
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:05,360
Speaker 1: like it, you know what I'm saying? Like label deals

830
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:09,320
Speaker 1: in a sense, ye, like I would imprint imprint, Like

831
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:13,800
Speaker 1: do you think that could exist in this day in time? Absolutely? Absolutely?

832
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 1: But you know the question is gonna be you know,

833
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 1: how how are you going to do that? Right, like,

834
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:19,839
Speaker 1: how are you going to set up the supply chain?

835
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 1: And who's gonna fund that supply chain? Okay, because you

836
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 1: look at it today. If you look at the sneaker,

837
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 1: you know, sneakers on like they're not like T shirts

838
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,320
Speaker 1: a T shirt. We can we can all put You

839
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: can put obviously something on the T shirt and it

840
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 1: really means a lot to people because they follow you

841
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 1: put two parts there. You go, right, you can make

842
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 1: that T shirt in two days. You can go print

843
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 1: it and ship it over to you that you can't

844
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 1: that's gonna take ninety days. You don't know if you

845
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 1: can customize it. And then your inventory is gonna be

846
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: massive because how many eights, eight and a half nines

847
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 1: against colors. So now you gotta look at how much

848
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 1: inventory you're gonna have to have, and that can suck

849
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 1: up a lot of cash because the more inventory you have,

850
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:10,160
Speaker 1: the more you gotta pay for warehousing and quality control.

851
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 1: And if you put out this, because we all know

852
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 1: the sneak crowd, if this sneaker is hot for ninety

853
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 1: days or one season and it is cold, now, if

854
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:23,359
Speaker 1: you paid whatever three dollars a unit and you've got

855
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 1: three million dollars worth of units in your warehouse. If

856
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 1: it don't become a collector's item, then when you go

857
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 1: and try to sell them, people are gonna pay the

858
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:32,399
Speaker 1: normal price to pay for They're gonna pay half the price.

859
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 1: So you just gotta really set up the supply chain

860
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,400
Speaker 1: in the right way where you can deliver it faster

861
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 1: to people at a time. Like my idea was, instead

862
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:43,839
Speaker 1: of me coming out with one, I wanted to come

863
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:45,239
Speaker 1: out with three at a time. I wanted to come

864
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 1: out with the nor like a Jim Jones and a

865
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 1: bad Joe. Right, So this way, so this way, I

866
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:53,239
Speaker 1: COO are putting all the revenue into it. I'm I'm

867
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 1: playing for everything, but no one knows. It's all under

868
00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:58,760
Speaker 1: one company. But no one knows who owns this company

869
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 1: or whatever the company is. But I got got Joe

870
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:04,800
Speaker 1: out on the Bronx promoting, I got Jim Jones in Miami,

871
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 1: and I'm in l A or something like that. So

872
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:07,960
Speaker 1: so the flip side of the best way to do

873
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 1: that because you have such a great relationship with them,

874
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 1: and they have such a great relationship with their audience.

875
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 1: It's it's a pre order situation exactly. That's what I

876
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 1: was thinking, You guys, so don't even don't even make

877
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 1: the product until we get that order. Don't make it

878
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:21,399
Speaker 1: until but but you have to have a customer who's

879
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 1: ready to wait for Yeah, we're only were rocking out

880
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:31,880
Speaker 1: with five thousands. If it goes round when you're not

881
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:34,880
Speaker 1: gonna have a loss because you know now you just

882
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:37,400
Speaker 1: gotta be reduction is good because you already got a

883
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 1: dance on pre selling right now now, he was It was, uh,

884
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 1: this is all serious, Like I'm not even none of

885
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 1: this was I was like playing around with But one

886
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 1: of the things I was going, I'm actually going to

887
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: l A this Wednesday, is I got this all done

888
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 1: in China, right And I had to go to China

889
00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: because I didn't know no other wound and I didn't

890
00:45:58,600 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: want to know health to tell the truth, I just

891
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:02,319
Speaker 1: I wanted to do something hundred percent on my own,

892
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 1: like like for real, and rad Alan helped me, you

893
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:05,920
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, But nope, we're not with no

894
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 1: money though everything was on me. So what I thought

895
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 1: about it was I had running can ye and I'm

896
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: supposed to meet with Kanye this week, and I think

897
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 1: he thinks I'm going to meet with him for drink chaps.

898
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 1: But one of the things that I want to meet

899
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:21,839
Speaker 1: with him as for Yo, listen, I want to pay

900
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 1: you the same ship I was gonna pay China to

901
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:25,839
Speaker 1: make my sneaker. I just want to make it here.

902
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: Would would that make a difference if it's American made

903
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 1: and then it's made in Calabasas or some ship as

904
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 1: opposed to China. Yeah, it is, but the pricing may

905
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 1: be different because we don't even know if they have

906
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 1: too main factories set up here to make to make footwear.

907
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:46,400
Speaker 1: You know, technology sometimes been in those areas, or you

908
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:48,759
Speaker 1: can get components made. You can say I'm gonna make

909
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:51,439
Speaker 1: the soul over there, and you know, make the upper

910
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:53,879
Speaker 1: over here. You know what you know when you want

911
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 1: to really make those sneakers, you know, like those they

912
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 1: they're like car builders who make those thnaks like we

913
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 1: own the Brandy Tonic and to take a long time

914
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 1: to make apparent sneakers. Yeah, okay, wow, okay, I didn't

915
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:09,239
Speaker 1: know what t is still out Yeah I still wanted

916
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:13,479
Speaker 1: about six years ago. Okay, okay, god you know money

917
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 1: tic Oh no, I do, I do, actually, but I

918
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 1: do so now shock take right, they come to you

919
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:27,799
Speaker 1: with this idea, and I imagine one of the things

920
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:29,719
Speaker 1: that could have been a turn off at first as

921
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 1: they're saying, you invest into your own money? Do you

922
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:36,279
Speaker 1: all day? Because you have to say, that's what I

923
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 1: want to understand. It doesn't make sense to me the

924
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: financials of that. How does that work? Like there's no

925
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:46,279
Speaker 1: match processing it and products nothing. If if they will,

926
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 1: maybe if I would spending ABC money, everybody in this

927
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:57,799
Speaker 1: room have a deal because the show, I'm thinking maybe

928
00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 1: it's a match situation. You know, mad nothing right, So

929
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 1: this is a one of them. Then when this is

930
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:10,839
Speaker 1: what I'm asking you. So when they approach you, they

931
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 1: say we're gonna make a show and you're using your

932
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:15,800
Speaker 1: own money, Like and I thought these dudes was crazy,

933
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:20,480
Speaker 1: but it was. It was oh eight when they approached me.

934
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 1: I had ten brands and eight of my brands with

935
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 1: dead and nobody. When people in old eight couldn't pay

936
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:29,319
Speaker 1: their morgan, the last thing they were doing was buying

937
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 1: a new T shirt or sneakers or jeans. They were

938
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:34,759
Speaker 1: their jeans forever. And I was like, yo, I'm only

939
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 1: getting pitched or the cloning companies because you know when

940
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:39,400
Speaker 1: people think who we just thought that they think you

941
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: know nothing else. And I was like, but yo, the

942
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:45,400
Speaker 1: skill set that I have is not making clothes. The

943
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 1: skills that I have is selling products. So I want

944
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,440
Speaker 1: to be able to go to a department store and say, yo,

945
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 1: you know me already. You know I'm in the men's section.

946
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:54,799
Speaker 1: But I got some lotions that I can say can

947
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:57,120
Speaker 1: take some real estate up in the lotion area and

948
00:48:57,200 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 1: the bedding in the kitchen area. So I said, I'm

949
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:02,440
Speaker 1: gonna be a diversify my portfolio, So let me go

950
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:04,360
Speaker 1: on the show. And that was the main reason I

951
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 1: did the show. Are the are the different people that pitch?

952
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:11,200
Speaker 1: Is there a vetting system that make sure that you

953
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 1: know they're just they're just not full of ship completely there? Yeah? So,

954
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:17,360
Speaker 1: but the betting system has changed, right, you know, Like, um, so,

955
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:19,879
Speaker 1: I think there's forty thou applicants online for the show.

956
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:22,480
Speaker 1: I think that they end them narrowing it down to

957
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 1: a thousand. They see they're seeing me in outside castings,

958
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 1: or we don't know anything about them, or they'll they'll

959
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 1: they'll they'll see him on the news, like you know,

960
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 1: a little Timmy gonna lemonade and stand you know whatever, um,

961
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:35,360
Speaker 1: and then then they'll bring us one and we'll finally

962
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:37,400
Speaker 1: see two hundred people, and only I think a hundred

963
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:41,319
Speaker 1: will air. And but the vetting process has changed over

964
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:43,360
Speaker 1: the years. The sharks have gotten smarter and the casting

965
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: directors gotten smarter. It's like, we do a production in

966
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 1: here right now, right there's a lot of smart people

967
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: in here who can walk me around the block ten

968
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:54,720
Speaker 1: times when I'm talking about angles, cameras and equipment. However,

969
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:57,360
Speaker 1: the first season, when cast is talking to us and

970
00:49:57,360 --> 00:50:00,360
Speaker 1: they were like, yo, doing about thirty million dollars sales,

971
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:03,800
Speaker 1: and I got one employee the casting director was a

972
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 1: casting director. They didn't know to ask the question like, Yo,

973
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:12,480
Speaker 1: what are you selling crack? You got hot right now?

974
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:16,400
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Like, but after seeing all

975
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:18,839
Speaker 1: these pictures, just like America has gotten smart and find

976
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:21,880
Speaker 1: out what the word royalties is in marginal retribution, the

977
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:24,880
Speaker 1: casting directors have to seeing hundreds of pitches. Now you

978
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:27,600
Speaker 1: go to them, they sound like me, Kevin Olire, you know,

979
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, come on, man, you know what I'm saying.

980
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:33,400
Speaker 1: So um so, so that's the real deal. And the

981
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 1: show you see eight minutes of a two hour pitch. Yeah,

982
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 1: there's two the pictures two hours, and it takes us

983
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 1: anywhere from six to nine months to close the deals.

984
00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:46,440
Speaker 1: And we and we and we generally close about eight

985
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:50,920
Speaker 1: of the deals. You see us, do mhm? Have have

986
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 1: um passed on something that it was like fuck? You

987
00:50:56,719 --> 00:51:00,439
Speaker 1: know what? At first couple of years I I thought

988
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:06,120
Speaker 1: like that right? And then I'll tell you what happened, Laurie.

989
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:10,319
Speaker 1: This guy walks in, falls on the ground as part

990
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:12,919
Speaker 1: of the skid. He gets up. He has his little

991
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: pin that he puts his glasses in it, and he says,

992
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 1: I got this pen ten dollars. You put your glasses

993
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:21,880
Speaker 1: in it, and you can put it on all your shirts.

994
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:26,280
Speaker 1: I was like, it's garbage because I've been putting cold

995
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 1: on my shirts. There Tommy Hill doing that, I mean

996
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:31,520
Speaker 1: Tommy like a Tommy Bahama. I'm like, yeah, I don't know,

997
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:35,320
Speaker 1: we're gonna work. Laurie goes off and there's a seven

998
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 1: million dollars in sales and that stupid ass pen. You

999
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:44,279
Speaker 1: know what, I realized She've been selling reading glasses for

1000
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:48,920
Speaker 1: fifteen years on her show. She has millions of people

1001
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 1: that mess with her because they're reading glasses and that's

1002
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 1: who she sold it too. So I realized that chasing

1003
00:51:57,239 --> 00:51:58,880
Speaker 1: money like that is like back in the days when

1004
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:01,360
Speaker 1: I was trying to chase that car game. If I

1005
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:04,400
Speaker 1: don't have the customer, I don't know the business, how

1006
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:06,640
Speaker 1: do I know if it's gonna sell. And that's why

1007
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 1: I'm doing really good and baby back ribs because I

1008
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:14,840
Speaker 1: know baby back right. Is there anything that you invested

1009
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:20,919
Speaker 1: in that that you personally believed in that it didn't work? Yeah,

1010
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 1: every every single thing that has failed. Oh wow. But

1011
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:25,920
Speaker 1: I just generally I don't talk about the entrepreneur wire's

1012
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:27,759
Speaker 1: failed because a lot of times the entrepreneurs are going

1013
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:31,040
Speaker 1: to a different stage, like, um, it may not be

1014
00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 1: working right now, and then two or three years later

1015
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:36,959
Speaker 1: may pop. But I've learned I was behind the camera

1016
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:40,239
Speaker 1: with food for the most part. I learned that if

1017
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 1: I go out and say, well, yo, this entrepreneurs sucked

1018
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 1: and this company sucked, that person may not get an

1019
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:49,520
Speaker 1: investment or a job later on for various different reasons.

1020
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: Because my, my, my, my words bring them up to

1021
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:57,400
Speaker 1: the top of the search. So um, and most of

1022
00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:00,640
Speaker 1: the time, entrepreneurs who have done more own by us.

1023
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 1: They don't have that intent. They just don't have enough

1024
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:05,840
Speaker 1: knowledge and they go out there and do wrong things,

1025
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:07,880
Speaker 1: you know, because some of them think, listen, I got it,

1026
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:09,080
Speaker 1: and it didn't happen to me, but it happened to

1027
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:10,840
Speaker 1: one of my guys. They I think he said he

1028
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:12,880
Speaker 1: invested five hundred thousand dollars. A woman went off and

1029
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 1: paid off all her bills and brought herself in you call. Now.

1030
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:19,839
Speaker 1: She didn't intend to steal, but her theory was, listen,

1031
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:23,440
Speaker 1: I'm paying interest in all these bills. Well it's credit.

1032
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:25,839
Speaker 1: Let me pay that down and I'm gonna get around

1033
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,239
Speaker 1: this old piece of ship car. I got wow. But

1034
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:30,320
Speaker 1: the theory was the wrong thing to do for the business,

1035
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:33,800
Speaker 1: of course. So you know, it's pretty hard when you

1036
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 1: when you when you when you're in business dealing with

1037
00:53:35,680 --> 00:53:39,719
Speaker 1: a lot of different personalities, egos. You know, is it

1038
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:42,160
Speaker 1: every anything that you ever like invested in that you

1039
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:45,360
Speaker 1: didn't believe in personally? Like you said, like I I

1040
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 1: but I can see the other people that were funk

1041
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:50,719
Speaker 1: with this, like like like, for instance, if I was

1042
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:53,400
Speaker 1: an investor, like I give you a better example. I

1043
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:55,759
Speaker 1: know for a fact, lies don't eat pork. But if

1044
00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:58,719
Speaker 1: you go to his restaurant, sweet check. There's a lot

1045
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:01,719
Speaker 1: of pork or that man, So you know what I'm saying, Like,

1046
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:03,880
Speaker 1: it's like he don't believe in that part of it,

1047
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:07,480
Speaker 1: but he um is there something like that. Yeah, there's

1048
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:10,920
Speaker 1: two guys. They have a company called Bomba's Socks, And

1049
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 1: I like the guys personally, but the socks is trash.

1050
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 1: But the socks I was like, know, the socks themselves

1051
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:22,400
Speaker 1: are good, but I was like, yo, I got a

1052
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:24,760
Speaker 1: million dollars worth the old football socks in the warehouse.

1053
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:28,000
Speaker 1: You wear them, nobody can tell what you're wearing because

1054
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 1: it's on your feet. They in buckets at five dollars

1055
00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:33,560
Speaker 1: a piece at the store. This ship is never gonna

1056
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 1: work exactly. They're doing a hundred million dollars a year

1057
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:41,800
Speaker 1: now a year and direct sales to the to the

1058
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:44,880
Speaker 1: to the customer. And the best thing about him is

1059
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 1: that the most comfortable socks I've ever won. But every

1060
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:49,279
Speaker 1: time you buy a pair of socks, they donate a

1061
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:51,239
Speaker 1: pair to the homeless shelter because that's one of the

1062
00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:55,800
Speaker 1: biggest challenges the homers have or complaints they have, and

1063
00:54:56,160 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 1: they've proven then you can take anything in the world

1064
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 1: and if you do with the right way, listen and

1065
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:02,319
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I should have known better.

1066
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:03,719
Speaker 1: I just made a T shirt. I didn't put three

1067
00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:06,239
Speaker 1: sleeves on the T shirt. They made a suck. One

1068
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:07,960
Speaker 1: of the biggest company in the world today is something

1069
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:11,640
Speaker 1: that sells a sugary, sugary bubbly water. It ain't another

1070
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 1: heart vowel they're selling. Simplicity is some of the best

1071
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:16,319
Speaker 1: things ever to sell people to. All these people are

1072
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:19,120
Speaker 1: here trying to create, you know this next heart vow

1073
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 1: Sometimes they should think about the simplistic things that everybody

1074
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:25,360
Speaker 1: can require every single day. We want to try to

1075
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:26,719
Speaker 1: do a tack of bone. But I want to I

1076
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:33,640
Speaker 1: got another question. I want to hear what's ahead. So

1077
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:36,080
Speaker 1: let me ask you something. Right when you see these

1078
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:41,239
Speaker 1: big companies like um a Gucci hiring a Dapper dam

1079
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:45,600
Speaker 1: and then a Louis Bitton hiring like a virgin, Like,

1080
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:47,880
Speaker 1: is that something you ever wanted to, like, like to

1081
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:52,080
Speaker 1: do like with one of these higher in brands, and like, yeah,

1082
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:56,720
Speaker 1: I would design robolex food watch. Yeah. I mean I think, yeah, absolutely,

1083
00:55:56,760 --> 00:55:59,680
Speaker 1: I mean I think that if I felt that if

1084
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 1: I just as some fly ship, I don't even know

1085
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:03,600
Speaker 1: how fly that was. I just said, remember my bad,

1086
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:05,960
Speaker 1: my bad, Okay you no, Absolutely if I think that,

1087
00:56:06,719 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 1: I think it made sense and I think that it

1088
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 1: could be authentic. Yeah if they if they just slap

1089
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:13,400
Speaker 1: somebody name on it, then it's not gonna happen. But

1090
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:15,719
Speaker 1: the way they messed with Dappa, they're letting Dappa be

1091
00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:18,680
Speaker 1: Dapper Dad. You know what I'm saying. We've seen brands

1092
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:21,920
Speaker 1: that having work because they slapped some name on it,

1093
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:25,319
Speaker 1: but not absolutely. Yeah, if it was something that would

1094
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:27,600
Speaker 1: set you to maybe something that was you will be

1095
00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:30,279
Speaker 1: looking forward to, Like if someone called you some of you,

1096
00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:32,279
Speaker 1: it would have to be branded our support. So I

1097
00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:35,520
Speaker 1: love I love y three, um tom Ford, but he

1098
00:56:35,640 --> 00:56:38,160
Speaker 1: too talented for me. Man, you know Tom Tom run

1099
00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:41,279
Speaker 1: service around me. But I love Tom Ford. Um um,

1100
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 1: let me see why cell that I said, why three pooma?

1101
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 1: Definitely I'm already hy three and XEL is not the

1102
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:55,719
Speaker 1: same thing, right east Link you mean he said, or

1103
00:56:56,640 --> 00:56:59,160
Speaker 1: why three y three? That's not that's that's the deeds

1104
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 1: uh high in the high Oh okay a cool cool.

1105
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:10,480
Speaker 1: I definitely watched brands. Um yeah, like you ever like

1106
00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:13,560
Speaker 1: you ever see like um, the cars like they're like

1107
00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:16,680
Speaker 1: they have like like the Eddie Bower Edition, Yeah edition

1108
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:19,080
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, so I would love and the artists

1109
00:57:19,080 --> 00:57:21,480
Speaker 1: have done didn't Jay do something? She wagons and stuff

1110
00:57:21,520 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 1: like that, because I don't know what the artists that

1111
00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 1: have had some signature vehicle thing. No, I don't really cool.

1112
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:30,320
Speaker 1: I don't think we have Jay designed a huge blow

1113
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:32,960
Speaker 1: or something like that, and he designed like, were you

1114
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:37,320
Speaker 1: gonna do something with Pitt? What? What about? What? You know?

1115
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:39,720
Speaker 1: Who You're gonna do something though? Right, that's my product.

1116
00:57:39,720 --> 00:57:41,400
Speaker 1: We've done a lot together. That's my that's my man

1117
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:45,440
Speaker 1: stuff Togeah, we worked together. We still have working relationship.

1118
00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:47,919
Speaker 1: You know. I think he's um again, like you're talking

1119
00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:50,960
Speaker 1: to me about artists and people that I've worked with

1120
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:53,840
Speaker 1: in the past. You know, the same the same, you know,

1121
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:57,920
Speaker 1: l Pitt and part Ashians have the same exact model.

1122
00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:00,240
Speaker 1: Lennox Lewis think we wake up before it way they

1123
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:03,040
Speaker 1: go and sleep after everybody. They over analyze their customers,

1124
00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:05,680
Speaker 1: they think outside the box. They don't get related with

1125
00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:09,360
Speaker 1: two many things. That's super particularly they're they're extremely well

1126
00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:13,480
Speaker 1: versed business people. So um, you know, you know when

1127
00:58:13,480 --> 00:58:14,840
Speaker 1: you know you know, you know, you know when you

1128
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:16,360
Speaker 1: know the type to Pete, I think you'll feel that

1129
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 1: way about Mr Lee when you talk to a right

1130
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:22,640
Speaker 1: right now now. One thing that before we because this

1131
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:24,600
Speaker 1: is the second part of the show. We gotta get it.

1132
00:58:24,800 --> 00:58:27,880
Speaker 1: But one thing that I wanted to ask you because um,

1133
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:31,520
Speaker 1: you're a black man. I'm a black man. Uh, you're

1134
00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:35,040
Speaker 1: from Queens. I'm from Queens. My wife is Latino, you

1135
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:38,000
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And your wife is his wife.

1136
00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 1: Have you ever like received any type of criticism for

1137
00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:43,320
Speaker 1: that because because of the whole for us by us,

1138
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:45,720
Speaker 1: you know the thing and like people try to like

1139
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:50,440
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, you know the funny thing. Um, I

1140
00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:53,600
Speaker 1: posted a picture for for a birthday or waiting photos

1141
00:58:53,960 --> 00:59:00,480
Speaker 1: and ninety five percent of the comments for extremely We've

1142
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:04,040
Speaker 1: been together twelve years, have have a three year old

1143
00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:07,640
Speaker 1: little baby girl and um. But but you know, I

1144
00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:09,680
Speaker 1: was always proud of the negative commons because the negative

1145
00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:15,240
Speaker 1: comments came from people of color, like always, and it's funny.

1146
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:18,000
Speaker 1: You know, you don't really know my history. My history

1147
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:21,040
Speaker 1: is that my father left when I was ten. My

1148
00:59:21,120 --> 00:59:23,280
Speaker 1: stepfather came into my life where I called my stepfather.

1149
00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:27,240
Speaker 1: Happens to be of the Jewish faith, his and and

1150
00:59:27,440 --> 00:59:28,720
Speaker 1: they had nothing to do with this whole thing in

1151
00:59:28,800 --> 00:59:32,960
Speaker 1: Foobo in South Africa. But his brother was a lead

1152
00:59:33,920 --> 00:59:38,480
Speaker 1: attorney over here in America for helping to free Mandela Um.

1153
00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:40,560
Speaker 1: And he always told me one thing you always said,

1154
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:43,080
Speaker 1: you know, David always be pro black, but never I

1155
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:48,760
Speaker 1: anti anything else. And I learned something about him. I loved.

1156
00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:51,880
Speaker 1: I learned that love doesn't come into color or agenda.

1157
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:54,160
Speaker 1: And I learned that white people are just as fucked

1158
00:59:54,200 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 1: up as all of us, right, they had the same problem,

1159
00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:02,920
Speaker 1: the same challenges. So my first wife is Dominican. I've

1160
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:06,000
Speaker 1: dated a lot of females of all colors and races

1161
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:10,120
Speaker 1: and religions. And when I found that that people people

1162
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 1: they're so busy trying to fight to avoid racism, prejudice

1163
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:17,000
Speaker 1: and things of that nature, but they're becoming the person

1164
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:21,560
Speaker 1: they're trying to fight against. And and I was fascinating,

1165
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:22,920
Speaker 1: not because I was fat, you know why. I was

1166
01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:26,960
Speaker 1: fascinating because why does that person care about who I love?

1167
01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:30,840
Speaker 1: And every single thing, every time changes happened in our

1168
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:32,600
Speaker 1: country and most likely the world, it took people of

1169
01:00:32,640 --> 01:00:35,400
Speaker 1: all colors, all right, There was a lot of people

1170
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:38,280
Speaker 1: of all color in every match that Martin Luther had

1171
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:41,320
Speaker 1: those white people with in those marches. But then again,

1172
01:00:41,360 --> 01:00:43,120
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be the optimistic person. I think the

1173
01:00:43,200 --> 01:00:46,680
Speaker 1: people that don't have access to people of other colors

1174
01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:49,160
Speaker 1: and cultures don't know what they don't know. So what

1175
01:00:49,360 --> 01:00:52,760
Speaker 1: you're carrying a tiki torch down in charles Ville or

1176
01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:55,360
Speaker 1: whatever the cases, or you're hating on me online because

1177
01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:58,040
Speaker 1: the person that that that I happened to love, who

1178
01:00:58,160 --> 01:01:03,360
Speaker 1: has now a half the child of color whatever, and

1179
01:01:03,440 --> 01:01:06,320
Speaker 1: then they're sitting there yelling at me. I'm going, do

1180
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:08,240
Speaker 1: you think that she ain't been called the nigger LoVa?

1181
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:12,320
Speaker 1: You know what she's been through as well, and do

1182
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:13,880
Speaker 1: you want that? Damn? You? Like, we're in the room

1183
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:15,080
Speaker 1: here and there's a whole bunch of people a lot

1184
01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:18,000
Speaker 1: of color here, and you probably work with them because

1185
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:19,320
Speaker 1: they're the best, and they work with you because they

1186
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:21,000
Speaker 1: believe you're the best. What the hell is who I

1187
01:01:21,360 --> 01:01:25,320
Speaker 1: got to do with anything? So I was finding fascinating

1188
01:01:25,320 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 1: and I learned from the people in the army when

1189
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:28,400
Speaker 1: they said, do I really care who that man don't

1190
01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:30,080
Speaker 1: want to praise to God? Or who they have sex

1191
01:01:30,160 --> 01:01:31,520
Speaker 1: with when I'm on the front line and I need

1192
01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:33,480
Speaker 1: them to have my back. So I find it fascinating.

1193
01:01:33,520 --> 01:01:38,760
Speaker 1: Don't try, don't hate something and become the thing that's

1194
01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:45,840
Speaker 1: So that's the really thick because it's like, um, I

1195
01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:49,840
Speaker 1: got I got six children, most five five of them

1196
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:57,920
Speaker 1: are you know, I want to say mostly blacks, mostly

1197
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:02,080
Speaker 1: said most of the most. I mean because you know,

1198
01:02:02,240 --> 01:02:05,160
Speaker 1: my my new wife, she's very light skinned, like she's buried,

1199
01:02:05,440 --> 01:02:09,560
Speaker 1: and people get that missing. Yeah, But what I'm saying is,

1200
01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:11,960
Speaker 1: and I understand that the thing is you fall in

1201
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:13,720
Speaker 1: love with who fall in love, but you shouldn't have

1202
01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:16,080
Speaker 1: to explain that or you know what I'm saying, Like

1203
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:18,160
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I see human being

1204
01:02:19,480 --> 01:02:23,200
Speaker 1: and then I see asshole after that, And did I

1205
01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:25,960
Speaker 1: see your race? So I see you as a human

1206
01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:28,560
Speaker 1: and did I see you as a person and then

1207
01:02:28,640 --> 01:02:31,280
Speaker 1: I see your race? You know what I'm saying. So, um,

1208
01:02:31,720 --> 01:02:35,520
Speaker 1: if you're a great person, I probably don't it probably wasn't.

1209
01:02:35,640 --> 01:02:39,480
Speaker 1: Probably your race probably won't matter, just doesn't. But if

1210
01:02:39,520 --> 01:02:43,480
Speaker 1: you're a dick, if you're if your race don't you

1211
01:02:43,520 --> 01:02:45,400
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, You're just a dick. You know

1212
01:02:45,440 --> 01:02:48,200
Speaker 1: what I'm you also when you don't even getting happened

1213
01:02:48,200 --> 01:02:51,040
Speaker 1: to be you know, in talking about an intimate relationship,

1214
01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:55,280
Speaker 1: you expand you you expand your network and your access

1215
01:02:55,400 --> 01:02:58,000
Speaker 1: to things when you work with people of all colors.

1216
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:00,640
Speaker 1: And that the whole issue we say, Gluci is having

1217
01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:03,960
Speaker 1: a challenge with me. So when you're open to everybody,

1218
01:03:04,040 --> 01:03:06,240
Speaker 1: like we all we listen, man, I'm not trying to

1219
01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:09,320
Speaker 1: be all or woman fun. But we we got we

1220
01:03:09,400 --> 01:03:11,240
Speaker 1: got more things that we talk, more things all over

1221
01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:13,200
Speaker 1: the world in common, and we have against each other.

1222
01:03:13,840 --> 01:03:15,240
Speaker 1: We just want to feed our families. You know that

1223
01:03:15,360 --> 01:03:18,080
Speaker 1: we don't get judged prematroity some ship we ain't do

1224
01:03:18,520 --> 01:03:21,000
Speaker 1: and work hard. It's just like it's just like you

1225
01:03:21,040 --> 01:03:24,760
Speaker 1: know when I go through the airport, like now, like

1226
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:27,760
Speaker 1: what the Gucci thing and you know what the Trump thing.

1227
01:03:27,880 --> 01:03:30,240
Speaker 1: It's like I get nervous immediately when I see somebody

1228
01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:32,520
Speaker 1: with a Trump had, you know, because I know they

1229
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:34,240
Speaker 1: might play for the other side. I know they might

1230
01:03:34,320 --> 01:03:36,600
Speaker 1: not they might not funk with me, you know what

1231
01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:39,040
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Like, so I immediately just you know what

1232
01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:41,240
Speaker 1: I'm saying. But when you see like I don't remember

1233
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:45,760
Speaker 1: like we came to me the Russia at one time,

1234
01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:48,920
Speaker 1: and it was crazy because me and fam we had

1235
01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:51,920
Speaker 1: to deal with this soth. It was somebody can't pick

1236
01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:55,040
Speaker 1: us up in Russia. And they got buttons on their

1237
01:03:55,080 --> 01:03:58,280
Speaker 1: shirt and it says Russians against racism. Now you know

1238
01:03:58,480 --> 01:04:01,760
Speaker 1: where you at if they got to where that on

1239
01:04:01,920 --> 01:04:06,480
Speaker 1: a motherfucking shure, like we was dead meat, Like this

1240
01:04:06,600 --> 01:04:09,920
Speaker 1: is how racists they counted. It literally say how racists

1241
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:11,520
Speaker 1: they were. This is how you know that racist there

1242
01:04:11,640 --> 01:04:14,280
Speaker 1: is when they didn't even look at me in my face,

1243
01:04:15,080 --> 01:04:16,600
Speaker 1: like at least look at me in my face and

1244
01:04:16,640 --> 01:04:19,720
Speaker 1: be like fuck you, like they looked they looked away

1245
01:04:19,840 --> 01:04:22,360
Speaker 1: like they was like, oh ship, nigger, nothing, just like

1246
01:04:22,640 --> 01:04:27,160
Speaker 1: I was like, oh ship, you separated for like five

1247
01:04:27,200 --> 01:04:33,840
Speaker 1: minutes compa, you know. And this is like when the

1248
01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:36,280
Speaker 1: phones like like they didn't know how to connect to

1249
01:04:37,720 --> 01:04:40,280
Speaker 1: in the Moscow you know. I mean, so, I mean

1250
01:04:40,440 --> 01:04:44,320
Speaker 1: it's real life ship, you know. Um that happened. So

1251
01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:47,560
Speaker 1: when you see like I follow you on Instagram and

1252
01:04:47,600 --> 01:04:49,720
Speaker 1: I got to see your daughter playing with a bi

1253
01:04:49,840 --> 01:04:55,120
Speaker 1: racial baby dog and and um I thought that was

1254
01:04:55,240 --> 01:04:57,320
Speaker 1: dope because I mean you gotta spread that. You gotta

1255
01:04:57,320 --> 01:05:00,160
Speaker 1: spread what happens. You gotta spread you know who you

1256
01:05:00,240 --> 01:05:02,400
Speaker 1: fall in love with. This is your business, you know

1257
01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:05,280
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But you shouldn't hide that at all. Exactly.

1258
01:05:05,400 --> 01:05:08,880
Speaker 1: You should be how you want to be and continue

1259
01:05:08,920 --> 01:05:10,560
Speaker 1: and continue to do that. You know what I'm saying.

1260
01:05:10,640 --> 01:05:14,960
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Because because um um Dre

1261
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:20,439
Speaker 1: got a white wife. Isn't she white? Dr Dre? She's nice?

1262
01:05:20,760 --> 01:05:23,640
Speaker 1: She white? What's she white? Though? And he said she's

1263
01:05:23,680 --> 01:05:30,760
Speaker 1: back and there ain't nothing wrong me. Like, listen, man,

1264
01:05:31,080 --> 01:05:33,760
Speaker 1: as long as we because sooner or later we're all

1265
01:05:33,800 --> 01:05:35,720
Speaker 1: gonna be one race. We keep sucking each other, I'm

1266
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Speaker 1: just gonna all gonna be one race anyway it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be called that's not race, It's gonna be you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So hold I'm going to a break

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01:05:44,200 --> 01:05:46,760
Speaker 1: because we're gonna take it back from break. We should

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Speaker 1: live and then we're gonna let do their page all right, cool?

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01:05:49,640 --> 01:05:52,440
Speaker 1: Hold on, let me go to take a brack. Do

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01:05:52,480 --> 01:05:56,120
Speaker 1: you need to mike them? Guys? We're back like a

1273
01:05:56,160 --> 01:06:01,280
Speaker 1: half time crap by umt man, she's just going down

1274
01:06:01,360 --> 01:06:04,960
Speaker 1: before we get into continuous pictures. Because I've been the

1275
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:06,880
Speaker 1: detecrity of the show's gonna go right out to window

1276
01:06:06,960 --> 01:06:10,400
Speaker 1: right now. I think there's a billion dollar deal. We're

1277
01:06:10,440 --> 01:06:13,120
Speaker 1: gonna be a shot too. But I'm gonna be honest.

1278
01:06:13,280 --> 01:06:17,080
Speaker 1: I'm investing. If I invested, it's gonna be my my

1279
01:06:17,200 --> 01:06:20,400
Speaker 1: money out of the monopoly money, my kids. But I

1280
01:06:20,520 --> 01:06:25,360
Speaker 1: believe you because I don't trust either one of these guys. Right.

1281
01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:27,520
Speaker 1: But before we get into that, I want to get

1282
01:06:27,520 --> 01:06:30,440
Speaker 1: I want to ask about Damon on Demand. Now, Now,

1283
01:06:30,560 --> 01:06:33,120
Speaker 1: what is that? How could the consumers and the people

1284
01:06:33,480 --> 01:06:35,520
Speaker 1: be a partner show? Show? Damon run Demand is as

1285
01:06:35,560 --> 01:06:37,360
Speaker 1: I was talking about my books I have with a

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01:06:37,440 --> 01:06:43,120
Speaker 1: digital curriculum and it's eight hours of basically all the

1287
01:06:43,200 --> 01:06:45,160
Speaker 1: things you need to know about starting the business. How

1288
01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:47,880
Speaker 1: do you get funding, who's your target audience, and all

1289
01:06:47,920 --> 01:06:49,320
Speaker 1: those things you need? What do you do when you

1290
01:06:49,360 --> 01:06:51,960
Speaker 1: go to the bank. When do you need funding? Because

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01:06:51,960 --> 01:06:54,880
Speaker 1: the main reason why small businesses and startups fail is

1292
01:06:54,880 --> 01:06:58,720
Speaker 1: actually overfunding. They raised too much money too quick to

1293
01:06:58,880 --> 01:07:01,680
Speaker 1: sit there and say, you know what, I want to

1294
01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:04,400
Speaker 1: open up a bakery because my grandmother's cupcakes with the

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01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:06,520
Speaker 1: best in town, and I'm one of a bakery. I'm

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01:07:06,520 --> 01:07:08,000
Speaker 1: gonna go get a hundred thousan dollars and I gonna

1297
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:12,000
Speaker 1: open up a bakery. But they never sell a cupcake ever, right,

1298
01:07:12,360 --> 01:07:13,920
Speaker 1: So they go and open up a bakery. They got

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01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:16,479
Speaker 1: the register look like a damn cupcake, the couch looks

1300
01:07:16,480 --> 01:07:18,560
Speaker 1: like a cupcake. They got everything looks like a couple.

1301
01:07:18,680 --> 01:07:21,440
Speaker 1: They never sold a cupcake though. Then they got software,

1302
01:07:21,520 --> 01:07:23,960
Speaker 1: the bad software. Now every time they opened up and

1303
01:07:24,040 --> 01:07:25,840
Speaker 1: they try to sell a cupcake. The little kid, every

1304
01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:27,560
Speaker 1: time he sells a cupcake, he sticks the other one

1305
01:07:27,600 --> 01:07:30,520
Speaker 1: in his pocket. They find out that, you know, there's

1306
01:07:30,520 --> 01:07:32,960
Speaker 1: a little kid in the preschool or down the block.

1307
01:07:33,040 --> 01:07:35,240
Speaker 1: They got a peanut allergy. They gotta close off half

1308
01:07:35,280 --> 01:07:37,600
Speaker 1: a block for And they find out there's a little

1309
01:07:37,600 --> 01:07:41,160
Speaker 1: grandmother that work in the church that she sell cupcakes

1310
01:07:41,240 --> 01:07:44,080
Speaker 1: like crack every week. Now they got a hundred thousand

1311
01:07:44,080 --> 01:07:47,960
Speaker 1: all alone, and they haven't figured out how to move

1312
01:07:48,080 --> 01:07:50,800
Speaker 1: their business. You see, because when you start with business,

1313
01:07:50,840 --> 01:07:52,800
Speaker 1: or whether you whether you're in the music business, whether

1314
01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:55,120
Speaker 1: the podcast, and you got to build a customer base first.

1315
01:07:56,560 --> 01:08:00,440
Speaker 1: You can't. Money only highlights your weaknesses. If you got

1316
01:08:00,520 --> 01:08:03,160
Speaker 1: crappy advertising, then go buy a million dollars worth of

1317
01:08:03,240 --> 01:08:08,440
Speaker 1: more crappy advertising. You got ship as shirts, go buy

1318
01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:12,040
Speaker 1: more inventory of shitty as shirts. So that's what usually

1319
01:08:12,080 --> 01:08:15,000
Speaker 1: happen because people think that money is the solution when

1320
01:08:15,040 --> 01:08:18,200
Speaker 1: it's really building an audience and people who are gonna

1321
01:08:18,200 --> 01:08:20,080
Speaker 1: go out and fight you the LLL who's gonna put

1322
01:08:20,120 --> 01:08:22,960
Speaker 1: your name in the gap at the people that used

1323
01:08:22,960 --> 01:08:25,160
Speaker 1: to come from Detroit to Queens to my shitty house

1324
01:08:25,200 --> 01:08:27,040
Speaker 1: and Queens and go back to Detroit and be like, Yo,

1325
01:08:27,120 --> 01:08:29,559
Speaker 1: I'm the fool dude, I'm the fooloo girl in Detroit.

1326
01:08:30,400 --> 01:08:32,400
Speaker 1: You need that army the same as the people who

1327
01:08:32,400 --> 01:08:36,040
Speaker 1: are listening right now. Those people become smarter every day

1328
01:08:36,120 --> 01:08:39,000
Speaker 1: after they listen to the podcast and they share it

1329
01:08:39,160 --> 01:08:42,400
Speaker 1: that information. They're the smartest person of the watercooler Monday morning.

1330
01:08:42,920 --> 01:08:45,120
Speaker 1: So that's what Damon the Man is showing you how

1331
01:08:45,280 --> 01:08:47,519
Speaker 1: to navigate and go through those mistakes. But it's not

1332
01:08:47,600 --> 01:08:50,000
Speaker 1: something you just watches on the computer. So what happens

1333
01:08:50,040 --> 01:08:52,599
Speaker 1: is you feel out of you, you feel out think.

1334
01:08:52,600 --> 01:08:54,840
Speaker 1: So it's just like, Yo, you just took this test.

1335
01:08:55,439 --> 01:08:56,800
Speaker 1: Do you need this funny? Because this is that if

1336
01:08:56,840 --> 01:08:59,200
Speaker 1: you say no and it's supposed to be yes, it

1337
01:08:59,280 --> 01:09:01,760
Speaker 1: kicks you back to you start old again, because repetition

1338
01:09:03,160 --> 01:09:06,040
Speaker 1: sinks in, it sings in. Are you starting to learn

1339
01:09:06,120 --> 01:09:08,000
Speaker 1: the mistakes? You don't just go, oh yo, I read

1340
01:09:08,040 --> 01:09:10,560
Speaker 1: the book. I'm done because you may have interpreted that

1341
01:09:10,720 --> 01:09:15,439
Speaker 1: book a hundred different ways wrong too. It kicks you back.

1342
01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:17,640
Speaker 1: And so so I'm gonna end up. We're gonna do

1343
01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:21,519
Speaker 1: something together with We give people a special access code

1344
01:09:22,080 --> 01:09:24,680
Speaker 1: only for checking us out here, and we just want

1345
01:09:24,680 --> 01:09:27,000
Speaker 1: to empower people. That's make some noise for that man.

1346
01:09:31,680 --> 01:09:34,040
Speaker 1: Now again, we're s some noise for how many of

1347
01:09:34,040 --> 01:09:40,360
Speaker 1: those are called blunts? Yes? Yes? How many mother that? Yeah? Yeah?

1348
01:09:41,280 --> 01:09:45,040
Speaker 1: Now listening with the joints right there. I totally don't

1349
01:09:45,120 --> 01:09:47,840
Speaker 1: know what's going on right now. I'm totally I just

1350
01:09:48,040 --> 01:09:50,920
Speaker 1: know that we we we were big fans of shark tank.

1351
01:09:51,880 --> 01:09:55,960
Speaker 1: We was trying to create drink tank or tring tank

1352
01:09:56,080 --> 01:10:00,280
Speaker 1: or it didn't work out like that, we did. You

1353
01:10:00,360 --> 01:10:03,440
Speaker 1: know what we go from? Two of them are craziest,

1354
01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:11,040
Speaker 1: two rightest, brightest, shouldn't say brightest s failure. So I'm

1355
01:10:11,080 --> 01:10:15,840
Speaker 1: gonna go with the Haitian guy first. HATI guys about

1356
01:10:15,840 --> 01:10:19,040
Speaker 1: saying that I used the microphone ware here? No, no, no,

1357
01:10:19,360 --> 01:10:22,599
Speaker 1: we got to play some you you were, Mike du Bluddy,

1358
01:10:23,320 --> 01:10:30,519
Speaker 1: we're here. Yeah, welcome to Chin Tank a K drink tank. Okay,

1359
01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:32,200
Speaker 1: you gotta say your name and where are you from?

1360
01:10:32,880 --> 01:10:38,280
Speaker 1: Sudden they be to you right here? Goddamn you call

1361
01:10:38,479 --> 01:10:42,320
Speaker 1: your people. Yes, I gotta like there. It's a little

1362
01:10:43,680 --> 01:10:47,320
Speaker 1: he asked you the question. Yeah, your life. He has

1363
01:10:47,400 --> 01:10:51,720
Speaker 1: to pitch your head. God, we don't even know what

1364
01:10:51,920 --> 01:10:54,720
Speaker 1: the I you just saying with your art? Hey man,

1365
01:10:56,080 --> 01:11:01,840
Speaker 1: what you got here? What is here? It's simple, like

1366
01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:06,800
Speaker 1: the concept of it's kind of like a uber but

1367
01:11:07,080 --> 01:11:14,040
Speaker 1: it's um but it's uber. Listen the dogs walking uber

1368
01:11:15,760 --> 01:11:19,240
Speaker 1: that might example with their dogs. Oh no matter what's city,

1369
01:11:19,280 --> 01:11:21,280
Speaker 1: anywhere in the world you are. You hit the uber

1370
01:11:21,360 --> 01:11:23,880
Speaker 1: and there's already someone there that he was ready to

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01:11:23,920 --> 01:11:26,760
Speaker 1: walk your dogs then use at your hotel. Exist. I

1372
01:11:26,840 --> 01:11:28,720
Speaker 1: think that exists. I don't know that it exists. I

1373
01:11:28,760 --> 01:11:34,000
Speaker 1: don't think so. I haven't seen it. Does it? Does it? Yea? Yeah?

1374
01:11:36,280 --> 01:11:42,400
Speaker 1: Like T shirts existed at that. It's just how how

1375
01:11:42,400 --> 01:11:44,479
Speaker 1: are you gonna how you're gonna build it? It's not

1376
01:11:44,600 --> 01:11:47,439
Speaker 1: a bad idea, right, You're gonna create a better mousetrap,

1377
01:11:47,600 --> 01:11:50,679
Speaker 1: But how are you gonna build it. Well, I haven't

1378
01:11:50,720 --> 01:11:57,280
Speaker 1: thought about all that. You've got two languages. You're here.

1379
01:12:00,080 --> 01:12:02,439
Speaker 1: It's like I said, it's already is this call wag,

1380
01:12:02,840 --> 01:12:05,360
Speaker 1: So let's speak the languages in every other country. You

1381
01:12:05,479 --> 01:12:18,800
Speaker 1: gotta go back, don't you go? Liten shrug industry right

1382
01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:26,800
Speaker 1: now there to go back to the listen man. You

1383
01:12:26,880 --> 01:12:33,720
Speaker 1: gotta give it up the people who standing there, and

1384
01:12:33,840 --> 01:12:39,600
Speaker 1: you all just save him a lot of money represented

1385
01:12:42,320 --> 01:12:45,519
Speaker 1: happy happy at her story of all follows, say your

1386
01:12:45,600 --> 01:12:48,400
Speaker 1: name and what you fun? But I'm miss something. I'm

1387
01:12:48,400 --> 01:12:50,840
Speaker 1: from New York when I leave in my hand man

1388
01:13:00,960 --> 01:13:08,000
Speaker 1: Miami right now the Latin from the Latins. See how

1389
01:13:08,080 --> 01:13:10,320
Speaker 1: a lot of the thing those like guys they're doing

1390
01:13:10,360 --> 01:13:15,280
Speaker 1: the eyebrows. Now, I guess there's a lot of money

1391
01:13:15,360 --> 01:13:18,040
Speaker 1: there to me. You can't so you get your eyebrows done?

1392
01:13:21,360 --> 01:13:27,120
Speaker 1: Does that's true? It's true. We gets the eye eyebrows

1393
01:13:27,600 --> 01:13:30,080
Speaker 1: like you coming with us with something that they can

1394
01:13:30,200 --> 01:13:31,760
Speaker 1: you know, for guys to come here like girls go

1395
01:13:31,840 --> 01:13:34,679
Speaker 1: to the barber, I mean the pet part of the dude.

1396
01:13:34,720 --> 01:13:37,720
Speaker 1: They get their hair done, they get the eyebrows. So

1397
01:13:37,760 --> 01:13:39,320
Speaker 1: I said, they just do it. Funding up to those

1398
01:13:39,360 --> 01:13:41,880
Speaker 1: for the guys, so so shows the purpose that you

1399
01:13:41,960 --> 01:13:43,960
Speaker 1: feel a guy doesn't want to really go into the

1400
01:13:44,000 --> 01:13:46,479
Speaker 1: shop and you want to do it at home, so

1401
01:13:46,640 --> 01:13:50,439
Speaker 1: simple ways that he's not looking feminine when he's doing it. Yeah,

1402
01:13:51,120 --> 01:13:53,439
Speaker 1: I really don't think that's what he meant. Did you

1403
01:13:53,680 --> 01:13:58,720
Speaker 1: get that? Because I would think, here's a guy I

1404
01:13:58,800 --> 01:14:02,040
Speaker 1: want to go into the shop. But I mean some

1405
01:14:02,160 --> 01:14:04,760
Speaker 1: of them are embarrassing. No, but in Puerto Rico, and

1406
01:14:05,560 --> 01:14:08,160
Speaker 1: in his defense, in Puerto Rico, if you go to

1407
01:14:08,280 --> 01:14:11,080
Speaker 1: a barber shop, that's one of the first things they domatically,

1408
01:14:11,240 --> 01:14:13,360
Speaker 1: automatically go to your eyes. Okay, so you want to

1409
01:14:13,400 --> 01:14:15,760
Speaker 1: do it at home and they were like coming to

1410
01:14:15,880 --> 01:14:19,559
Speaker 1: your Oh they're doing at your crib? You really been? Okay,

1411
01:14:19,640 --> 01:14:22,240
Speaker 1: that's a good idea, runner, dude, but I ain't gonna

1412
01:14:22,240 --> 01:14:26,120
Speaker 1: start it. I mean, that's no. What's the name of

1413
01:14:26,160 --> 01:14:31,080
Speaker 1: your business? On my own job? What's what's your name

1414
01:14:31,120 --> 01:14:49,400
Speaker 1: of this business? Man? The creative rum? I tell you

1415
01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:58,680
Speaker 1: the best and bright shot? What's your head sales? What

1416
01:14:58,800 --> 01:15:02,360
Speaker 1: are you listen? You know what? You should have pieced too?

1417
01:15:02,360 --> 01:15:03,840
Speaker 1: Because I look like you got hit easy in your net.

1418
01:15:05,439 --> 01:15:09,160
Speaker 1: You see you should you should have remover? How about that?

1419
01:15:10,360 --> 01:15:13,880
Speaker 1: About but about the eyebrows ship, I'm not gonna lie.

1420
01:15:14,479 --> 01:15:19,160
Speaker 1: You know, it sounds like it's best. Huh. I'm thinking

1421
01:15:19,200 --> 01:15:21,560
Speaker 1: about it. I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking about it.

1422
01:15:21,880 --> 01:15:25,800
Speaker 1: How to go to commerce your break because I'm thinking

1423
01:15:25,800 --> 01:15:28,280
Speaker 1: about that, I'm lacking a lot. That's one thing about

1424
01:15:28,280 --> 01:15:31,519
Speaker 1: the Latino race is they get different type of haircuts,

1425
01:15:32,640 --> 01:15:34,720
Speaker 1: like they come like like if you go to the

1426
01:15:34,760 --> 01:15:37,920
Speaker 1: Black bobber shop. They're not touching your fucking eyebrows. You

1427
01:15:37,960 --> 01:15:39,160
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Most of the time, I don't

1428
01:15:39,160 --> 01:15:41,760
Speaker 1: even touch your nose heads. You got accidental touch about

1429
01:15:41,760 --> 01:15:44,400
Speaker 1: nose here, you know what I'm said. But with that,

1430
01:15:44,479 --> 01:15:48,200
Speaker 1: but but but but but usually successful entrepreneurs of people

1431
01:15:48,240 --> 01:15:50,320
Speaker 1: that see a need in the market that's not being

1432
01:15:50,400 --> 01:15:54,280
Speaker 1: fully addressed. Again, going back to when I I did

1433
01:15:54,320 --> 01:15:56,120
Speaker 1: the car did the cars. I wanted money, but I

1434
01:15:56,200 --> 01:16:00,320
Speaker 1: did food because something needed to change. And he's seeing

1435
01:16:00,439 --> 01:16:02,320
Speaker 1: a need in this show. I'm not being funny. It's

1436
01:16:03,600 --> 01:16:05,479
Speaker 1: you see the ship. They got face on their eyebro

1437
01:16:06,600 --> 01:16:16,400
Speaker 1: Caesar's baby affron thrown out. Yeah, we'll think about yeah, yeah,

1438
01:16:17,760 --> 01:16:27,160
Speaker 1: think about that. I'm yeah, I'm not how could you

1439
01:16:27,640 --> 01:16:34,120
Speaker 1: do that? One? That now onto the side, like aside

1440
01:16:34,160 --> 01:16:36,800
Speaker 1: from sneak, I was serious, but you know, my guys

1441
01:16:36,840 --> 01:16:39,840
Speaker 1: are playing. But how many how many? How many times

1442
01:16:39,920 --> 01:16:43,800
Speaker 1: a day are you walking on a day like people

1443
01:16:43,840 --> 01:16:46,200
Speaker 1: just coming up to Yeah, I get you wouldn't elevator

1444
01:16:46,280 --> 01:16:49,880
Speaker 1: and somebody get patched. Probably about I was eight times

1445
01:16:49,960 --> 01:16:56,639
Speaker 1: a day. Probably about that one was that catch your attention?

1446
01:16:56,800 --> 01:16:59,960
Speaker 1: Not at all. I'll tell you how you don't catch

1447
01:17:00,000 --> 01:17:02,240
Speaker 1: They don't have my attention because they may have good ideas,

1448
01:17:02,240 --> 01:17:03,879
Speaker 1: but they don't wonder how the first is gonna execute.

1449
01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:06,760
Speaker 1: And I don't have time. If I had time to

1450
01:17:06,840 --> 01:17:10,160
Speaker 1: make everything hot, then people would be Nike. I only

1451
01:17:10,240 --> 01:17:12,800
Speaker 1: have a limited amount of time. Show I can't do

1452
01:17:12,880 --> 01:17:15,960
Speaker 1: it because then I'll draw on an opportunity. So you know,

1453
01:17:16,120 --> 01:17:18,160
Speaker 1: it's just it's challenging. But I don't get mad at

1454
01:17:18,160 --> 01:17:19,560
Speaker 1: people pitching me because all they want to do is

1455
01:17:20,120 --> 01:17:23,680
Speaker 1: they want to do is change their lives. So I

1456
01:17:23,720 --> 01:17:25,680
Speaker 1: ain't mad at it. But yeah, I get pitched a lot.

1457
01:17:25,920 --> 01:17:29,040
Speaker 1: Yeah that's that's funny because I'll be like walking through

1458
01:17:29,040 --> 01:17:31,960
Speaker 1: when Dixie and publics and people but he can run.

1459
01:17:32,040 --> 01:17:34,120
Speaker 1: I'd be like, they don't even wait for me to

1460
01:17:34,200 --> 01:17:41,600
Speaker 1: say I'm busy, they just start spitting. I'm like, so

1461
01:17:42,160 --> 01:17:45,760
Speaker 1: like that's that's MC. And I can imagine like people

1462
01:17:45,800 --> 01:17:47,400
Speaker 1: were like look at you like they're gonna think it

1463
01:17:47,479 --> 01:17:49,479
Speaker 1: gonna be a big person in president. Let me I

1464
01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:51,719
Speaker 1: got any times in person, it's about twenty or thirty

1465
01:17:51,760 --> 01:17:54,880
Speaker 1: and then all the stuff, the emails calls and okay,

1466
01:17:55,560 --> 01:18:00,880
Speaker 1: has has um uh? Has it got every boys at

1467
01:18:00,960 --> 01:18:03,040
Speaker 1: one point or you you still look at it like

1468
01:18:03,680 --> 01:18:05,240
Speaker 1: you know, this is your job and this is the

1469
01:18:05,360 --> 01:18:08,439
Speaker 1: nine never gets unbearable. I know the cameras are there.

1470
01:18:08,560 --> 01:18:11,400
Speaker 1: I have the opportunity to leave Shark Tank about one um.

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01:18:12,160 --> 01:18:14,479
Speaker 1: And again it's not like in your situation or you know,

1472
01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:16,320
Speaker 1: somebody want to be a model or somebody want to

1473
01:18:16,320 --> 01:18:18,559
Speaker 1: be an artist, and they just start builting out songs

1474
01:18:19,120 --> 01:18:20,800
Speaker 1: like these people. A lot of people really have well

1475
01:18:20,880 --> 01:18:23,200
Speaker 1: through thought out ideas. They may be good idea, Like

1476
01:18:23,240 --> 01:18:25,240
Speaker 1: you've said, how many investing I just don't have time,

1477
01:18:26,280 --> 01:18:28,800
Speaker 1: But you have to meet some people that haven't. Their

1478
01:18:28,840 --> 01:18:30,840
Speaker 1: ideas can get I mean I mean some, I mean

1479
01:18:30,960 --> 01:18:35,040
Speaker 1: some like that is frustrating to a degree. We'll know

1480
01:18:35,120 --> 01:18:39,120
Speaker 1: it's frustrating when I go how much time on money

1481
01:18:39,160 --> 01:18:40,320
Speaker 1: you put into this and they'd be like, no, I'm

1482
01:18:40,360 --> 01:18:42,840
Speaker 1: here for you to do that, like they just did.

1483
01:18:45,280 --> 01:18:46,479
Speaker 1: I don't know who, he would saying, I want you

1484
01:18:46,479 --> 01:18:48,720
Speaker 1: to direct me, but I'd like, yo, but don't you

1485
01:18:48,800 --> 01:18:51,720
Speaker 1: think I came up with my own ideas today? You

1486
01:18:51,800 --> 01:18:53,120
Speaker 1: know that's it. I ain't got time to do. You know.

1487
01:18:53,200 --> 01:18:56,160
Speaker 1: That's the funny thing about even even us, as people

1488
01:18:56,280 --> 01:18:59,280
Speaker 1: think that there's a they think they're putting on as

1489
01:18:59,320 --> 01:19:01,400
Speaker 1: a button. They didn't like, I put you on, and

1490
01:19:01,479 --> 01:19:04,080
Speaker 1: like but yeah, and then they just put on No,

1491
01:19:04,479 --> 01:19:06,280
Speaker 1: I can put you on. You still have to work

1492
01:19:06,360 --> 01:19:08,439
Speaker 1: for you to be there, you know what I'm saying.

1493
01:19:08,439 --> 01:19:10,040
Speaker 1: And a lot of people just don't get that, you

1494
01:19:10,080 --> 01:19:12,280
Speaker 1: know what I mean, harder even when you get put on.

1495
01:19:12,600 --> 01:19:14,160
Speaker 1: I see the other day, you know, I seen the

1496
01:19:14,200 --> 01:19:16,880
Speaker 1: other day it was Lebron meet mal and they were

1497
01:19:16,880 --> 01:19:19,479
Speaker 1: all talking about how they had to like, you know,

1498
01:19:19,680 --> 01:19:22,720
Speaker 1: give things to certain people or certain people felt like

1499
01:19:22,840 --> 01:19:26,000
Speaker 1: that that that that that they deserved it. Because it's

1500
01:19:26,040 --> 01:19:27,760
Speaker 1: like right now, right if I was to ask, I

1501
01:19:27,880 --> 01:19:29,800
Speaker 1: was to ask my man right here right as just

1502
01:19:29,840 --> 01:19:33,200
Speaker 1: saying what was your name again? I'm so sorry Alex,

1503
01:19:33,439 --> 01:19:35,880
Speaker 1: I would say, Alex, can you want me to the store, right,

1504
01:19:36,280 --> 01:19:38,400
Speaker 1: I want nobody. Alex doesn't give a funk, he would

1505
01:19:38,439 --> 01:19:40,519
Speaker 1: never bring up me. Welcome to them the store. But

1506
01:19:40,600 --> 01:19:43,840
Speaker 1: I become this big popular a guy. Then two years

1507
01:19:43,880 --> 01:19:45,519
Speaker 1: from now Alexe is like I remember he had to

1508
01:19:45,560 --> 01:19:49,080
Speaker 1: want to walk with the shore and now Alex because

1509
01:19:49,160 --> 01:19:52,400
Speaker 1: I'm famous. You know, like have you ever had you

1510
01:19:52,479 --> 01:19:55,080
Speaker 1: know that level of successful? People just feel like because

1511
01:19:55,120 --> 01:19:57,679
Speaker 1: you slept on a girl's couch one night in sixth

1512
01:19:57,720 --> 01:20:00,560
Speaker 1: grade that you know what I'm saying that, like you

1513
01:20:00,720 --> 01:20:03,320
Speaker 1: older girl now like oh yeah, you know there's a

1514
01:20:03,320 --> 01:20:05,360
Speaker 1: old saying what's the old said? Success? Had had a

1515
01:20:05,439 --> 01:20:09,200
Speaker 1: lot of parents bail years in offing, right, And you

1516
01:20:09,280 --> 01:20:11,200
Speaker 1: know I hear it all the time, and I give

1517
01:20:11,320 --> 01:20:13,479
Speaker 1: thanks to all those that help me, Like you won't

1518
01:20:13,520 --> 01:20:15,439
Speaker 1: see me here front of like there wasn't calling on

1519
01:20:15,520 --> 01:20:18,479
Speaker 1: a cross cold before me. L didn't l reached out

1520
01:20:18,560 --> 01:20:20,360
Speaker 1: to help me because he didn't need me around me

1521
01:20:20,479 --> 01:20:22,720
Speaker 1: Daniels over here. I don't mind doing that, but yeah

1522
01:20:22,720 --> 01:20:25,360
Speaker 1: it a random cats who as tidn losing it. We're

1523
01:20:25,400 --> 01:20:29,280
Speaker 1: doing the Puma collection, releasing the Coloseum probably about six

1524
01:20:29,320 --> 01:20:32,840
Speaker 1: months ago, and the three dudes and then I don't

1525
01:20:32,880 --> 01:20:35,240
Speaker 1: even know these dudes. I ne's running around the starts

1526
01:20:35,280 --> 01:20:38,439
Speaker 1: one like yeah, yeah, who cats can make the hood.

1527
01:20:38,479 --> 01:20:39,800
Speaker 1: I had him shook, you know, I used to have

1528
01:20:39,920 --> 01:20:43,360
Speaker 1: him under pressure, so you know, and I think you

1529
01:20:43,400 --> 01:20:46,720
Speaker 1: know my executive security grim next Naci, look like he

1530
01:20:46,840 --> 01:20:50,080
Speaker 1: breaks for breakfast. You won't go here? What you just

1531
01:20:50,160 --> 01:20:52,280
Speaker 1: saying on him? Like no, no, no, I don't want

1532
01:20:52,320 --> 01:20:54,040
Speaker 1: to know what to dude. I never really met him,

1533
01:20:54,040 --> 01:20:56,800
Speaker 1: you know, but they were just walking around. It's like

1534
01:20:57,000 --> 01:21:00,560
Speaker 1: crazy for new reason, right, So it'll cat we just

1535
01:21:00,600 --> 01:21:03,400
Speaker 1: brushed by. You wouldn't say, you know, I remember that cat.

1536
01:21:04,960 --> 01:21:07,759
Speaker 1: But you know what, man, listen, man, it's an opinion.

1537
01:21:07,960 --> 01:21:10,120
Speaker 1: It's a theory. And I always say everybody got two

1538
01:21:10,200 --> 01:21:13,120
Speaker 1: things in the world, asshole and opinion. They both stink, right,

1539
01:21:13,200 --> 01:21:16,280
Speaker 1: So you know they're gonna say about you, and this

1540
01:21:16,400 --> 01:21:19,320
Speaker 1: is what it is, you know, goddamn it. Now. One

1541
01:21:19,320 --> 01:21:24,280
Speaker 1: of these things is um when you like Google, Like,

1542
01:21:24,400 --> 01:21:28,120
Speaker 1: you know, you're very successful, man, very very very successful,

1543
01:21:28,720 --> 01:21:33,000
Speaker 1: and you don't really wear a lot of jewelry at all. Yeah,

1544
01:21:33,479 --> 01:21:37,920
Speaker 1: Like is that purpose or is that because you're just

1545
01:21:37,960 --> 01:21:40,920
Speaker 1: not into it? You know, I grew up in that

1546
01:21:41,040 --> 01:21:44,600
Speaker 1: world and I wore it a lot, and I loved it.

1547
01:21:45,640 --> 01:21:48,760
Speaker 1: I grew up when I saw I used to hear

1548
01:21:48,760 --> 01:21:50,920
Speaker 1: it riding to the top playing Supreme Team with the

1549
01:21:50,960 --> 01:21:55,479
Speaker 1: walking like you missed a t And I was like,

1550
01:21:55,920 --> 01:21:58,240
Speaker 1: I can't wait to be in that world. And I

1551
01:21:58,320 --> 01:22:00,720
Speaker 1: work for a long period of time. And then I

1552
01:22:00,800 --> 01:22:04,080
Speaker 1: started walking into the other rooms where there was people

1553
01:22:04,120 --> 01:22:09,160
Speaker 1: with substantial wealth. We're talking about Mark Cuban talking about

1554
01:22:09,200 --> 01:22:12,360
Speaker 1: Bill Gates, and I know this Cuban dressed bumby to

1555
01:22:12,400 --> 01:22:16,639
Speaker 1: everybody in this room, pancake battle on and joining everything.

1556
01:22:18,680 --> 01:22:20,720
Speaker 1: I walked and I was like, yo, I mean they

1557
01:22:20,840 --> 01:22:23,840
Speaker 1: do shoes is curled up, you know, looking like Peter

1558
01:22:23,960 --> 01:22:27,720
Speaker 1: Pan joints. And I'm like, and you know what I'm saying,

1559
01:22:27,720 --> 01:22:29,640
Speaker 1: I pay a hunted dollar for this watch. And I

1560
01:22:29,800 --> 01:22:34,679
Speaker 1: realized that they don't care. They don't care about that stuff,

1561
01:22:35,240 --> 01:22:38,240
Speaker 1: you know. I'm yeah, I'm not a lot of rules

1562
01:22:38,240 --> 01:22:41,120
Speaker 1: of people. I've been in one room where a lot

1563
01:22:41,160 --> 01:22:43,640
Speaker 1: of calfs do we know and may have even more

1564
01:22:43,680 --> 01:22:46,360
Speaker 1: money than me, have been talking about how much money

1565
01:22:46,600 --> 01:22:51,040
Speaker 1: they spent at a party. When we travel the president,

1566
01:22:51,120 --> 01:22:53,200
Speaker 1: you were around a lot of billionaires and you in

1567
01:22:53,479 --> 01:22:55,320
Speaker 1: a certain group they don't sayd much they spend on

1568
01:22:55,320 --> 01:22:56,800
Speaker 1: the party. They say how much they were able to

1569
01:22:56,880 --> 01:22:59,479
Speaker 1: give away this year, And it's way more than the

1570
01:22:59,520 --> 01:23:01,360
Speaker 1: cats that was I was talking about hearing on the party.

1571
01:23:01,960 --> 01:23:06,320
Speaker 1: I'm talking talking about we raised and gave away five

1572
01:23:06,479 --> 01:23:10,160
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars this year. And what we're talking about

1573
01:23:10,160 --> 01:23:13,559
Speaker 1: the chain I got on. You know so, because they're

1574
01:23:13,600 --> 01:23:16,000
Speaker 1: looking at you and they're saying, how close you know?

1575
01:23:16,240 --> 01:23:19,559
Speaker 1: How are you thinking? Because I'm not saying anything better

1576
01:23:19,560 --> 01:23:21,720
Speaker 1: than you? They may even say I like what you think.

1577
01:23:21,800 --> 01:23:24,760
Speaker 1: And you're younger you in this world? You know when

1578
01:23:24,840 --> 01:23:26,479
Speaker 1: when don't we talk about what we could do together?

1579
01:23:28,280 --> 01:23:29,760
Speaker 1: You know So, I've just been in different rooms and

1580
01:23:29,880 --> 01:23:34,160
Speaker 1: and it just educated me. It's relationships. Um So one

1581
01:23:34,200 --> 01:23:36,680
Speaker 1: of the most important things in this game, in the

1582
01:23:36,760 --> 01:23:40,160
Speaker 1: game that the relationship is the most important game period period.

1583
01:23:40,280 --> 01:23:42,920
Speaker 1: No matter what I told you. The number one reason

1584
01:23:43,000 --> 01:23:46,920
Speaker 1: why entrepreneurs failed, the number one reason they succeed is

1585
01:23:47,240 --> 01:23:50,760
Speaker 1: they all have a mentor. That's the one that's the

1586
01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:53,679
Speaker 1: number one real mentor who is not part of their business.

1587
01:23:54,640 --> 01:23:58,000
Speaker 1: Because mentors are gonna do three things. They're gonna tell

1588
01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:00,679
Speaker 1: you not to take in capital too soon, they're gonna

1589
01:24:00,680 --> 01:24:03,720
Speaker 1: tell you not to spread yourself too thin, take your

1590
01:24:03,800 --> 01:24:06,519
Speaker 1: money to can't give you example why in a minute.

1591
01:24:07,280 --> 01:24:09,320
Speaker 1: They're gonna tell you not to spread yourself too thin,

1592
01:24:09,680 --> 01:24:12,320
Speaker 1: meaning you know, I want to make a thousand different

1593
01:24:12,360 --> 01:24:15,200
Speaker 1: styles in my world. And they're also gonna tell you

1594
01:24:15,320 --> 01:24:18,280
Speaker 1: not to scale too fast, meaning all right, I gotta

1595
01:24:18,360 --> 01:24:20,040
Speaker 1: order for a hundred, but I'm gonna go and buy

1596
01:24:20,080 --> 01:24:23,080
Speaker 1: a thousand pieces. Don't jump ahead, don't jump ahead. And

1597
01:24:23,360 --> 01:24:27,960
Speaker 1: that's what that's exactly, um what mentors do. Not I

1598
01:24:28,040 --> 01:24:30,040
Speaker 1: said something earlier. That's something we get back to one something.

1599
01:24:30,120 --> 01:24:34,840
Speaker 1: But the way it huh, first, we're not taking money

1600
01:24:34,880 --> 01:24:37,160
Speaker 1: too soon, because I'll show you example another way that

1601
01:24:37,160 --> 01:24:39,439
Speaker 1: people go broke. If you want to open. And let's

1602
01:24:39,439 --> 01:24:40,720
Speaker 1: say one of you when you guys, I think we

1603
01:24:40,800 --> 01:24:42,599
Speaker 1: really like the business. And I said to the guy

1604
01:24:42,680 --> 01:24:44,320
Speaker 1: right there, to the eyebrobbins, yo, I'm gonna give you

1605
01:24:44,360 --> 01:24:48,880
Speaker 1: fifty tho dollars fiftyent of that business. All right, I'll

1606
01:24:48,920 --> 01:25:13,680
Speaker 1: give you gut around. So but let's say let's say

1607
01:25:13,800 --> 01:25:15,519
Speaker 1: and I got fifty percent in business. Let's say that

1608
01:25:15,640 --> 01:25:19,040
Speaker 1: business he starts to franchise, that license it out, that

1609
01:25:19,080 --> 01:25:21,760
Speaker 1: thing he comes to the next to dry ball for males, right,

1610
01:25:22,240 --> 01:25:24,360
Speaker 1: and now he's doing a million dollars in business. Now,

1611
01:25:24,439 --> 01:25:26,040
Speaker 1: who wants to go and open up a bunch of

1612
01:25:26,080 --> 01:25:29,240
Speaker 1: locations or a bunch of software or now and he

1613
01:25:29,439 --> 01:25:35,719
Speaker 1: needs four dollars. Now, I ain't giving him a piece

1614
01:25:35,760 --> 01:25:38,680
Speaker 1: of my fifty percent that I just got. So now

1615
01:25:38,760 --> 01:25:40,920
Speaker 1: you gotta go raised four hundred thousand dollars. And maybe

1616
01:25:40,960 --> 01:25:44,280
Speaker 1: that's another before you know that after you keep raising,

1617
01:25:44,320 --> 01:25:46,599
Speaker 1: you keep growing, you want five percent of the business

1618
01:25:46,640 --> 01:25:50,320
Speaker 1: you work for everybody else, So don't take in capital

1619
01:25:50,400 --> 01:25:57,479
Speaker 1: too soon because you're saying that fifty thou already gave

1620
01:25:57,560 --> 01:26:00,960
Speaker 1: you fifty percent, so you're taking money. He raised more,

1621
01:26:01,000 --> 01:26:03,479
Speaker 1: he's selling more shares more. But if he would if

1622
01:26:03,520 --> 01:26:04,840
Speaker 1: he would have went out and just did a hundred

1623
01:26:04,880 --> 01:26:07,599
Speaker 1: thousand dollar worth of business over three years and said, listen,

1624
01:26:07,680 --> 01:26:10,200
Speaker 1: I need you to help finances or the bank finances,

1625
01:26:10,439 --> 01:26:11,760
Speaker 1: he may have been able to go out and get

1626
01:26:11,800 --> 01:26:14,639
Speaker 1: a get a three hundred thousand dollar alone at six

1627
01:26:14,720 --> 01:26:18,800
Speaker 1: percent interest, not six percent of his company, because you

1628
01:26:18,880 --> 01:26:22,920
Speaker 1: already have proof of sales. So these are the things

1629
01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:24,840
Speaker 1: that we grew up in the hood. We didn't know.

1630
01:26:25,520 --> 01:26:28,600
Speaker 1: We were to our Listen, don't trust the bank. Go

1631
01:26:29,040 --> 01:26:31,599
Speaker 1: to the go over to the check cash in place.

1632
01:26:31,760 --> 01:26:33,760
Speaker 1: You pay six or eight percent for them to cash

1633
01:26:33,800 --> 01:26:37,639
Speaker 1: your check. That's eight percent of your salary. You're getting recovery.

1634
01:26:37,960 --> 01:26:41,519
Speaker 1: Cash your check, right, Hide all your money underneath your bed.

1635
01:26:42,520 --> 01:26:45,160
Speaker 1: Don't trust anybody with your money. If you would, if

1636
01:26:45,200 --> 01:26:47,880
Speaker 1: you would, if you would have buried a hundred thousand

1637
01:26:47,920 --> 01:26:53,160
Speaker 1: dollars the nineteen seventy five today and can barely buy

1638
01:26:53,240 --> 01:26:56,240
Speaker 1: you a g wagon, right, But if you would have

1639
01:26:56,320 --> 01:26:58,320
Speaker 1: taken that money and bought a diamond today, that diamond

1640
01:26:58,320 --> 01:27:01,000
Speaker 1: would have been worth two point seven million house. You see,

1641
01:27:01,040 --> 01:27:03,280
Speaker 1: money is a depreciating asset. Unless you put it to

1642
01:27:03,360 --> 01:27:06,680
Speaker 1: work for you, then you're gonna lose on right. So

1643
01:27:06,800 --> 01:27:08,559
Speaker 1: the other thing we talked about, damon the man. These

1644
01:27:08,600 --> 01:27:10,680
Speaker 1: are things that the hood is. We grew up, they

1645
01:27:10,680 --> 01:27:13,240
Speaker 1: didn't know any better. So you said, you're saying a

1646
01:27:13,360 --> 01:27:16,120
Speaker 1: hundred twenty five in the bank is always gonna be

1647
01:27:16,200 --> 01:27:20,040
Speaker 1: worth more than a hundred under your bag. Of course, yes,

1648
01:27:20,120 --> 01:27:22,280
Speaker 1: because you're gonna get interest in and a hundred twenty

1649
01:27:22,320 --> 01:27:25,559
Speaker 1: five dollars that you went and put on a house,

1650
01:27:25,640 --> 01:27:27,519
Speaker 1: and now you have a house for three hundred, four

1651
01:27:27,560 --> 01:27:30,040
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars that something, and the morning you're joined

1652
01:27:30,080 --> 01:27:33,360
Speaker 1: that house is about But somebody's paying you thirty two

1653
01:27:33,479 --> 01:27:35,680
Speaker 1: hundred a month to stay in that house. Now it's

1654
01:27:35,680 --> 01:27:38,120
Speaker 1: gonna make you way more money after you add depreciation

1655
01:27:38,160 --> 01:27:40,160
Speaker 1: to it and over the course of the year. You know,

1656
01:27:40,560 --> 01:27:43,120
Speaker 1: you know real people who will make a lot of

1657
01:27:43,200 --> 01:27:45,400
Speaker 1: money and invest a lot of money. They have other

1658
01:27:45,640 --> 01:27:49,960
Speaker 1: people paying for their assets and making a profit off

1659
01:27:50,000 --> 01:27:53,439
Speaker 1: of it. Like you're in the real estate as well.

1660
01:27:53,600 --> 01:27:55,400
Speaker 1: I'm in the real estate a little bit. Yeah, absolutely.

1661
01:27:55,720 --> 01:27:57,679
Speaker 1: You know those are the people who instead of going

1662
01:27:57,720 --> 01:27:59,960
Speaker 1: and buying a big house, they buy four small house

1663
01:28:00,040 --> 01:28:03,040
Speaker 1: an airbnb or rent them out and then they rent

1664
01:28:03,160 --> 01:28:06,680
Speaker 1: the house they staying. They own what they rent out,

1665
01:28:06,760 --> 01:28:08,599
Speaker 1: and they rent what they staying so they could write

1666
01:28:08,640 --> 01:28:19,400
Speaker 1: that off. He's like, that's what this is, is what

1667
01:28:19,520 --> 01:28:22,920
Speaker 1: he's doing. I'm trying to like because I'm trying to

1668
01:28:22,960 --> 01:28:25,960
Speaker 1: get these properties in Vegas and Airbnb m just just

1669
01:28:26,040 --> 01:28:28,400
Speaker 1: for that, because um Vegas. You know, I actually know

1670
01:28:28,439 --> 01:28:31,720
Speaker 1: they were recreational with marijuana. But the thing about it

1671
01:28:31,880 --> 01:28:36,080
Speaker 1: is they kind of you can't you can only smoke

1672
01:28:36,160 --> 01:28:41,200
Speaker 1: cigarettes indoors and they're not allowing you to smoke uh

1673
01:28:41,479 --> 01:28:45,080
Speaker 1: cigars or so I figured, y'all get an Airbnb crib

1674
01:28:45,680 --> 01:28:48,879
Speaker 1: and I allow that, like you just just I promoted

1675
01:28:48,960 --> 01:28:51,639
Speaker 1: as that, like you can smoke in this crib because

1676
01:28:51,640 --> 01:28:53,439
Speaker 1: it's not something I want to ever live in. You

1677
01:28:53,479 --> 01:28:54,880
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, I'm just gonna be out. But

1678
01:28:55,360 --> 01:29:00,519
Speaker 1: you just posted child smoking this ship. God, I was

1679
01:29:00,600 --> 01:29:02,960
Speaker 1: thinking about even saying this is Norriy's crib. You know

1680
01:29:02,960 --> 01:29:08,360
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, like like, yeah, this is Nor's baby, Yeah,

1681
01:29:08,400 --> 01:29:12,519
Speaker 1: Norri's crib because you can smoke as much as the

1682
01:29:12,600 --> 01:29:14,760
Speaker 1: funk you want. And this motherfucker it should be called

1683
01:29:14,800 --> 01:29:20,719
Speaker 1: the cataracts. And now is there anything that you ever wished?

1684
01:29:21,680 --> 01:29:23,920
Speaker 1: First off and four before? Because I was like a

1685
01:29:24,200 --> 01:29:27,479
Speaker 1: super ending type of question, what did you want? L

1686
01:29:27,680 --> 01:29:31,920
Speaker 1: L you guys all relationships standard at this point because good,

1687
01:29:32,040 --> 01:29:35,559
Speaker 1: my own, my three partners, my other three partners amazing dudes,

1688
01:29:35,920 --> 01:29:39,000
Speaker 1: um and we're like brothers. I met my first I

1689
01:29:39,080 --> 01:29:40,800
Speaker 1: met one on when I was six years old. Other

1690
01:29:40,840 --> 01:29:43,560
Speaker 1: two I met one out twelve. Um Ella talked to

1691
01:29:43,640 --> 01:29:45,479
Speaker 1: him the other day on the phone, and you know

1692
01:29:45,640 --> 01:29:47,559
Speaker 1: he was like, YEO, I see the heat on the brand,

1693
01:29:47,760 --> 01:29:50,840
Speaker 1: what's up? And I was like, listen, I don't need

1694
01:29:50,920 --> 01:29:53,759
Speaker 1: to call on the big guns yet, you know, because

1695
01:29:53,800 --> 01:29:56,960
Speaker 1: I know you got to TV shows. You're l cool.

1696
01:29:57,040 --> 01:30:00,600
Speaker 1: J Let us get to this point because no matter what,

1697
01:30:00,680 --> 01:30:02,080
Speaker 1: no matter what lever are, you still got to prove

1698
01:30:02,080 --> 01:30:04,200
Speaker 1: your market. Let's get to this point. Let I follow him,

1699
01:30:04,240 --> 01:30:06,240
Speaker 1: get strong enough in this day and eighth, there's gonna

1700
01:30:06,240 --> 01:30:08,600
Speaker 1: be a new following. And then if I need to

1701
01:30:08,720 --> 01:30:11,080
Speaker 1: call you in, can I call you and don't use that?

1702
01:30:11,760 --> 01:30:15,920
Speaker 1: Don't you let me not let me call that. Don't

1703
01:30:15,920 --> 01:30:18,200
Speaker 1: put Jordan in the game. Don't put Jordan in the

1704
01:30:18,280 --> 01:30:20,280
Speaker 1: game because we're still we're still play in high school game.

1705
01:30:20,360 --> 01:30:21,640
Speaker 1: You know, we're still in high school right now. So

1706
01:30:21,720 --> 01:30:25,080
Speaker 1: that's really humble of you actually going to talk that way. Well,

1707
01:30:25,200 --> 01:30:27,120
Speaker 1: thank god it is. However, let's look at let's look

1708
01:30:27,120 --> 01:30:28,680
Speaker 1: at the other side. I can't call him for no

1709
01:30:28,800 --> 01:30:32,320
Speaker 1: more papers if you use use this up. Yeah, you know,

1710
01:30:32,479 --> 01:30:34,360
Speaker 1: every him where man in my life, everybody will pick

1711
01:30:34,400 --> 01:30:37,720
Speaker 1: up the phone for me once I don't come through.

1712
01:30:38,640 --> 01:30:40,720
Speaker 1: You're being very helpful people people on the phone for you.

1713
01:30:40,880 --> 01:30:44,400
Speaker 1: Five steps now have to mess up the bag. You

1714
01:30:44,439 --> 01:30:47,160
Speaker 1: know that's what I'm saying right, because I'm a call

1715
01:30:47,240 --> 01:30:49,920
Speaker 1: for something real and I'm a call for it really

1716
01:30:50,000 --> 01:30:51,679
Speaker 1: and now I'm at and you know what's gonna happen.

1717
01:30:52,000 --> 01:30:54,360
Speaker 1: They're gonna call me back for another favor. On the

1718
01:30:54,400 --> 01:30:56,559
Speaker 1: flip side, is there any time you have mess up

1719
01:30:56,600 --> 01:30:59,439
Speaker 1: in the bag? Like you you've invested in something that

1720
01:30:59,560 --> 01:31:03,720
Speaker 1: didn't and you kept going. Yeah, listen, I am, I

1721
01:31:03,840 --> 01:31:05,519
Speaker 1: did keep going. I messed up. I missed it the

1722
01:31:05,560 --> 01:31:08,200
Speaker 1: bad a couple of times here and there. Um, but

1723
01:31:08,280 --> 01:31:10,320
Speaker 1: thank god the black I I messed up. We had

1724
01:31:10,320 --> 01:31:13,040
Speaker 1: already made a lot of money prior in barrious different areas,

1725
01:31:13,760 --> 01:31:16,240
Speaker 1: you know. But um, but some of them are calling

1726
01:31:16,280 --> 01:31:18,560
Speaker 1: me now, like yo, I got do remember when you

1727
01:31:18,680 --> 01:31:25,439
Speaker 1: had that night? You gotta answer that call alright? And

1728
01:31:26,439 --> 01:31:32,880
Speaker 1: is it over? Is it worther? Uh? Absolutely? Man. You

1729
01:31:32,960 --> 01:31:35,680
Speaker 1: know I questioned myself a lot of times. You know,

1730
01:31:35,760 --> 01:31:38,920
Speaker 1: when my first marriage, I got two little to two

1731
01:31:39,000 --> 01:31:41,920
Speaker 1: baby girls with the twenty five now and and that

1732
01:31:42,080 --> 01:31:45,560
Speaker 1: didn't thank God, right and that didn't go right. But

1733
01:31:45,640 --> 01:31:48,200
Speaker 1: because I was working so much on foobu second marriage

1734
01:31:48,240 --> 01:31:50,400
Speaker 1: to yeah, yeah, you know, my first marriage and a

1735
01:31:50,439 --> 01:31:51,840
Speaker 1: little while and out a little bit you don't give

1736
01:31:52,080 --> 01:31:53,760
Speaker 1: you don't give a guy thirty years old a couple

1737
01:31:53,760 --> 01:31:55,280
Speaker 1: of million dollars in the bank. You know what I'm saying,

1738
01:31:55,640 --> 01:31:58,360
Speaker 1: flying over the Asia and coming over, you have got

1739
01:31:58,439 --> 01:32:03,680
Speaker 1: that good. But then I say to myself, if I

1740
01:32:03,800 --> 01:32:05,320
Speaker 1: was doing a city job, if I was working in

1741
01:32:05,400 --> 01:32:09,240
Speaker 1: red lobster, I still would work like that. I still

1742
01:32:09,400 --> 01:32:12,200
Speaker 1: would have felt like I gotta keep going to make

1743
01:32:12,280 --> 01:32:14,720
Speaker 1: the best right. So because you can't, I can't keep

1744
01:32:14,720 --> 01:32:17,439
Speaker 1: going pull with regretting what happened. So yeah, but but

1745
01:32:17,600 --> 01:32:21,360
Speaker 1: is it worth it? Absolutely? Man, God is good. God

1746
01:32:21,400 --> 01:32:27,960
Speaker 1: It's got the goods. Now you have bolted horse in

1747
01:32:28,000 --> 01:32:31,120
Speaker 1: the cryptocurrency race. What do you need thoughts on that?

1748
01:32:31,320 --> 01:32:33,400
Speaker 1: On that whole, I think crypto was gonna come back.

1749
01:32:33,439 --> 01:32:35,080
Speaker 1: I think it had a bubble exactly like it was

1750
01:32:35,120 --> 01:32:36,760
Speaker 1: going to have a bubble. I think you should buy

1751
01:32:36,760 --> 01:32:39,360
Speaker 1: it now. I do think so. I think I think

1752
01:32:39,439 --> 01:32:43,679
Speaker 1: it will be a digital currency. Um, But I don't

1753
01:32:43,720 --> 01:32:46,720
Speaker 1: think it's like how people said credit cards were that

1754
01:32:47,320 --> 01:32:50,000
Speaker 1: when they first start. Yeah, I say, don't bet the

1755
01:32:50,120 --> 01:32:53,040
Speaker 1: farm on it. I mean the theory and the theory

1756
01:32:53,080 --> 01:32:57,839
Speaker 1: and investing is putting money up whatever you can afford.

1757
01:32:58,760 --> 01:33:02,200
Speaker 1: If the money doubles. Take the money off the table.

1758
01:33:02,240 --> 01:33:04,400
Speaker 1: So then you're playing with the house is money, and

1759
01:33:04,520 --> 01:33:06,320
Speaker 1: if it's affordable. Now, if you feel, I don't know

1760
01:33:06,320 --> 01:33:08,120
Speaker 1: where you're sating down training the four thousand or three

1761
01:33:08,200 --> 01:33:11,240
Speaker 1: thousand or two thousand, whatever it is, buy a little

1762
01:33:11,240 --> 01:33:13,920
Speaker 1: bit of what you can, but make sure it's money

1763
01:33:13,960 --> 01:33:17,240
Speaker 1: that you are able to lose. Don't put your last

1764
01:33:17,320 --> 01:33:20,120
Speaker 1: on it. You know, how about is a restaurant a

1765
01:33:20,200 --> 01:33:23,880
Speaker 1: good business? Have your restaurant is the worst possible business

1766
01:33:23,880 --> 01:33:26,800
Speaker 1: to get into. Everybody keeps saying that, and I need

1767
01:33:26,920 --> 01:33:29,640
Speaker 1: to understand why have you invested in the restaurant? And

1768
01:33:29,640 --> 01:33:31,280
Speaker 1: if I never had? But I worked to Red Loster,

1769
01:33:33,000 --> 01:33:39,200
Speaker 1: and I tell you something, my soul everything nothing. I

1770
01:33:39,320 --> 01:33:42,640
Speaker 1: got a bottle srimps, You just throw them in the

1771
01:33:42,720 --> 01:33:44,840
Speaker 1: guard at the back pool, but beat up the bad

1772
01:33:45,000 --> 01:33:47,879
Speaker 1: round pick those bottles, shrimp up something to the Chinese restaurants.

1773
01:33:48,080 --> 01:33:51,920
Speaker 1: Don't know, man, waits yourself, redines the shrimp to the

1774
01:33:52,000 --> 01:33:58,479
Speaker 1: Chinese restaurant. That was all that was all. I don't

1775
01:33:58,680 --> 01:34:01,600
Speaker 1: I don't not mean you do doing I was like this,

1776
01:34:01,880 --> 01:34:03,640
Speaker 1: So you know, when you're work in the in the

1777
01:34:03,800 --> 01:34:07,680
Speaker 1: in that business, man, it's so many people with your

1778
01:34:07,720 --> 01:34:10,519
Speaker 1: hands in your pocket, right, and everybody's not gonna have

1779
01:34:10,560 --> 01:34:12,599
Speaker 1: a good experience on how to you know, you can

1780
01:34:12,640 --> 01:34:14,200
Speaker 1: make the safe for a hundred different people as a

1781
01:34:14,240 --> 01:34:16,439
Speaker 1: hundred different experiences on that. So that's one of the

1782
01:34:16,520 --> 01:34:18,200
Speaker 1: people that I was one of the business. If a

1783
01:34:18,280 --> 01:34:23,400
Speaker 1: person asks you to recommend you number one business that fails, Wow,

1784
01:34:23,960 --> 01:34:28,439
Speaker 1: how about a bar bar right in the same area. Man,

1785
01:34:28,520 --> 01:34:30,479
Speaker 1: this is the same but not as bad because you

1786
01:34:30,560 --> 01:34:34,320
Speaker 1: don't have all those perishables, room the food. Yeah yeah,

1787
01:34:34,360 --> 01:34:38,200
Speaker 1: you can get here on the time you're gonna be there. Yeah, right,

1788
01:34:38,280 --> 01:34:41,200
Speaker 1: that that's the question on you know, a bar bar

1789
01:34:41,400 --> 01:34:46,800
Speaker 1: is not as bad now like a startup company. H

1790
01:34:47,200 --> 01:34:49,280
Speaker 1: what is probably like for a person who wants to

1791
01:34:49,320 --> 01:34:52,200
Speaker 1: be an investor, person that has a hunde grand or

1792
01:34:52,280 --> 01:34:56,240
Speaker 1: something save they they job money or save whatever money

1793
01:34:56,280 --> 01:35:00,560
Speaker 1: they had, got a honey grand, still making money? But

1794
01:35:00,640 --> 01:35:03,000
Speaker 1: how does the hunt grant to invest How would you

1795
01:35:03,920 --> 01:35:08,560
Speaker 1: recommend that day? Go about? Um, you know, trying to

1796
01:35:09,240 --> 01:35:11,720
Speaker 1: live the life that you live. What do you what

1797
01:35:11,800 --> 01:35:14,880
Speaker 1: do you do for free today? You get paid off

1798
01:35:16,479 --> 01:35:22,320
Speaker 1: and whever that is, educate yourself in that business. So

1799
01:35:22,400 --> 01:35:24,080
Speaker 1: if you like, if you if you got a crew

1800
01:35:24,200 --> 01:35:26,240
Speaker 1: like us, a friend of people may know you'd like

1801
01:35:26,320 --> 01:35:28,000
Speaker 1: to talk ship and blow your brains out like that,

1802
01:35:28,160 --> 01:35:30,439
Speaker 1: no problem. You want to do a podcast and people

1803
01:35:30,479 --> 01:35:33,120
Speaker 1: gonnau with you or invest in Cannada because that's my

1804
01:35:33,160 --> 01:35:35,360
Speaker 1: next thing, because you want to smoke everything. You got

1805
01:35:35,439 --> 01:35:43,720
Speaker 1: no right, by the way, he's very right. But that's

1806
01:35:43,760 --> 01:35:45,760
Speaker 1: the reason why I invest in companies like I don't

1807
01:35:45,760 --> 01:35:48,160
Speaker 1: even invest with like I invest in companies. I don't

1808
01:35:48,160 --> 01:35:51,080
Speaker 1: even want to say that thing because my side partner

1809
01:35:51,120 --> 01:35:53,759
Speaker 1: on one and then I have my other companing. I couldn't.

1810
01:35:54,080 --> 01:35:58,519
Speaker 1: I did not sign a contract again, but I didn't

1811
01:35:58,560 --> 01:36:01,600
Speaker 1: want to blow that up that you have like that,

1812
01:36:01,680 --> 01:36:03,559
Speaker 1: you know you you blow, you blow, you say, yeah, man,

1813
01:36:03,560 --> 01:36:05,439
Speaker 1: I got a business with them, and they're like okay,

1814
01:36:05,720 --> 01:36:09,080
Speaker 1: and someone else coming and yeah, you know I've done that.

1815
01:36:09,320 --> 01:36:12,320
Speaker 1: I've seen that, like you know what the craziest ship

1816
01:36:12,400 --> 01:36:15,640
Speaker 1: in the world is I've done. I can't again, I

1817
01:36:15,680 --> 01:36:18,360
Speaker 1: can't say these companies. I've done great business with this

1818
01:36:18,479 --> 01:36:22,200
Speaker 1: company for two years, right, but it was d a middleman. Right,

1819
01:36:22,520 --> 01:36:25,639
Speaker 1: it was due to middleman and this company, big Hollywood

1820
01:36:25,640 --> 01:36:30,360
Speaker 1: company that can't say who that and they contacted me directly. Yes.

1821
01:36:31,680 --> 01:36:35,400
Speaker 1: He said, yo, yes, Tod. I said, yo, you know

1822
01:36:35,720 --> 01:36:38,240
Speaker 1: I heard you got this different show. So I said yeah, dude,

1823
01:36:38,560 --> 01:36:39,920
Speaker 1: And they said we would like to meet with you.

1824
01:36:40,280 --> 01:36:42,320
Speaker 1: So I said all right, cool, and this is they're

1825
01:36:42,360 --> 01:36:44,400
Speaker 1: a big company. He was like, but we're meeting with you,

1826
01:36:44,560 --> 01:36:47,000
Speaker 1: not with these these guys. And I was just like

1827
01:36:48,680 --> 01:36:56,920
Speaker 1: I expected that from nickas holy Ship, like I kid,

1828
01:36:56,960 --> 01:36:59,719
Speaker 1: you know. I was like, damn, like this is some street.

1829
01:37:01,000 --> 01:37:03,040
Speaker 1: Like they're like, yo, you know what we did business.

1830
01:37:03,320 --> 01:37:05,880
Speaker 1: They broke you us. That is That's basically what the

1831
01:37:05,920 --> 01:37:09,200
Speaker 1: conversation was. They broke you us. We had a successful

1832
01:37:09,680 --> 01:37:13,320
Speaker 1: running with them. Now you have something else that we're

1833
01:37:13,360 --> 01:37:16,479
Speaker 1: interested in, but we want to deal business directly with you.

1834
01:37:17,040 --> 01:37:20,719
Speaker 1: And it was just so it was so mind boy

1835
01:37:21,720 --> 01:37:24,320
Speaker 1: bobbling to me because I'm like, that's kind of like

1836
01:37:24,640 --> 01:37:27,120
Speaker 1: that's how the streets go, like like if you're sunk

1837
01:37:27,200 --> 01:37:29,120
Speaker 1: with me, these guys ut me to you. I don't

1838
01:37:29,120 --> 01:37:32,880
Speaker 1: really need these guys. Yeah, losing the connect and they

1839
01:37:32,960 --> 01:37:36,080
Speaker 1: did that Hollywood just now. But I would wonder why

1840
01:37:36,120 --> 01:37:38,160
Speaker 1: they want to deal directly with you because I would say, well,

1841
01:37:38,200 --> 01:37:40,559
Speaker 1: what is the purpose, because I may have to say

1842
01:37:41,080 --> 01:37:43,200
Speaker 1: they may go listen, you don't know about all the

1843
01:37:43,200 --> 01:37:45,519
Speaker 1: stuff we dealt with with the situation, And I would say, okay,

1844
01:37:46,080 --> 01:37:48,600
Speaker 1: or why am I gonna believe you? So let me

1845
01:37:48,640 --> 01:37:50,400
Speaker 1: go back to these cats over here. If we do

1846
01:37:50,520 --> 01:37:51,600
Speaker 1: a deal, if you don't want to deal with them

1847
01:37:51,640 --> 01:37:53,639
Speaker 1: no more, we gotta cut them a little something, something,

1848
01:37:53,720 --> 01:37:56,840
Speaker 1: would do something right by them. You gotta find out

1849
01:37:56,880 --> 01:38:01,759
Speaker 1: that all the side of no, if they just snakes,

1850
01:38:01,760 --> 01:38:04,760
Speaker 1: you be like, nah, yeah, you know what I mean.

1851
01:38:04,920 --> 01:38:07,240
Speaker 1: The other side is that they know that they could

1852
01:38:07,280 --> 01:38:09,360
Speaker 1: communicate with me, and they felt like I think it

1853
01:38:09,400 --> 01:38:12,679
Speaker 1: in the beginning, I was just wild. You know Porto

1854
01:38:12,760 --> 01:38:17,880
Speaker 1: Rican black guy that you know smoke sweed and one's

1855
01:38:17,920 --> 01:38:21,719
Speaker 1: around with you know, twenty five guys. They don't understand

1856
01:38:21,720 --> 01:38:24,040
Speaker 1: that I have a sober life. Yeah, I wake up

1857
01:38:24,040 --> 01:38:27,720
Speaker 1: in the morning. And when they didn't realize that, they said, oh,

1858
01:38:27,760 --> 01:38:29,800
Speaker 1: we could do with them direct. Yeah, but then they're

1859
01:38:29,800 --> 01:38:32,040
Speaker 1: trying to cut the guy out of it's not right,

1860
01:38:32,600 --> 01:38:35,760
Speaker 1: It ain't right, yeah right, whatever said it was right now.

1861
01:38:36,200 --> 01:38:37,840
Speaker 1: I never said it was like, oh I said it

1862
01:38:37,880 --> 01:38:42,559
Speaker 1: was no, no, no, you tell you something. The corporate

1863
01:38:42,640 --> 01:38:51,360
Speaker 1: gags all of them are white, way way worse. Should Yeah,

1864
01:38:51,360 --> 01:38:53,000
Speaker 1: when I got out of you know, when I got

1865
01:38:53,080 --> 01:38:56,040
Speaker 1: out of you know, really dealing with the hook. You know,

1866
01:38:56,240 --> 01:38:59,760
Speaker 1: the uh so cat at really measured me when I

1867
01:38:59,880 --> 01:39:04,439
Speaker 1: was coming up because in eighty nine where eight eight,

1868
01:39:04,520 --> 01:39:07,320
Speaker 1: You're like, yo, I'm gonna start being a designer. They

1869
01:39:07,439 --> 01:39:11,160
Speaker 1: was like yo, you're like man, you know, because that

1870
01:39:11,280 --> 01:39:15,400
Speaker 1: time designers are usually flamboyant cats didn't want to see this.

1871
01:39:15,520 --> 01:39:17,080
Speaker 1: Catch was like, I don't gonna be around these cats.

1872
01:39:18,000 --> 01:39:20,360
Speaker 1: When that BIB article came out and said food did

1873
01:39:20,439 --> 01:39:28,840
Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty million dollars, this yere there dumberhood dudes,

1874
01:39:28,840 --> 01:39:30,519
Speaker 1: was like, yo, we didn't get to get our clothes

1875
01:39:30,560 --> 01:39:33,760
Speaker 1: on these Something is trying to escape that world because

1876
01:39:33,800 --> 01:39:38,040
Speaker 1: I was never trying to be like that. Yeah, when

1877
01:39:38,040 --> 01:39:39,559
Speaker 1: I saw more in the bathroom, when I found out

1878
01:39:39,600 --> 01:39:42,680
Speaker 1: the Italian mob was there, I found the triazz is

1879
01:39:42,760 --> 01:39:46,160
Speaker 1: over in China. I found out all the gangsters that

1880
01:39:46,240 --> 01:39:47,960
Speaker 1: were in that world, I was like, yo, just I'd

1881
01:39:48,040 --> 01:39:50,080
Speaker 1: rather go back to the street. This is worse than

1882
01:39:50,120 --> 01:39:52,760
Speaker 1: the street. If they don't come at you the same

1883
01:39:52,840 --> 01:39:54,439
Speaker 1: way she's doing the street come at you would have gone.

1884
01:39:54,479 --> 01:39:56,640
Speaker 1: They come out you and say something. You in that

1885
01:39:56,800 --> 01:40:00,559
Speaker 1: world you find out something random, you just already gonna say.

1886
01:40:00,600 --> 01:40:01,920
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say that would happened to me, But

1887
01:40:03,000 --> 01:40:05,280
Speaker 1: you got ten million dollars worth of clothes coming in

1888
01:40:05,400 --> 01:40:09,760
Speaker 1: for the season. If somebody you know called, you'll be like, yo,

1889
01:40:09,880 --> 01:40:13,160
Speaker 1: you won't miss two million dollars worth of those clothes

1890
01:40:13,920 --> 01:40:17,080
Speaker 1: on on the water. They're gonna disappear. And I don't

1891
01:40:17,080 --> 01:40:19,759
Speaker 1: want you to say nothing. You better call the insurance company.

1892
01:40:20,479 --> 01:40:23,400
Speaker 1: I ain't never happened to me, But that's the stuff

1893
01:40:23,479 --> 01:40:28,040
Speaker 1: that happens. They control the ports, they control the ports

1894
01:40:28,320 --> 01:40:34,519
Speaker 1: the company. It's called organized crime for so the corporate

1895
01:40:34,560 --> 01:40:37,800
Speaker 1: gangster is away and a lot of things I found

1896
01:40:37,840 --> 01:40:40,280
Speaker 1: out five and ten years later happened. I don't even

1897
01:40:40,320 --> 01:40:43,240
Speaker 1: know that the gangster was going on like that, which

1898
01:40:43,280 --> 01:40:45,840
Speaker 1: is what we have. This is why you always get

1899
01:40:45,920 --> 01:40:48,080
Speaker 1: this guy that comes to the hood that's a real

1900
01:40:48,360 --> 01:40:51,559
Speaker 1: official Ja Vinci and real official Gucci. But this ship

1901
01:40:51,680 --> 01:40:54,040
Speaker 1: is eighty dollars. I mean, so, how many times in

1902
01:40:54,640 --> 01:40:59,680
Speaker 1: the business when they talking about advertising and promotion for

1903
01:41:00,360 --> 01:41:04,479
Speaker 1: a record you found on that advertising promotion wasn't a billboy.

1904
01:41:05,080 --> 01:41:08,479
Speaker 1: That was somebody had to get kicked off somewhere. Yeah,

1905
01:41:08,520 --> 01:41:11,720
Speaker 1: it was terrible. When are you serious? You know even

1906
01:41:11,760 --> 01:41:15,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something. I never knew the ugly

1907
01:41:16,080 --> 01:41:22,600
Speaker 1: truth until a week ago. To the week ago. I know,

1908
01:41:22,680 --> 01:41:27,280
Speaker 1: I'm talking about someone emailed me something by my stake

1909
01:41:29,320 --> 01:41:32,160
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about the ugly truth was so written

1910
01:41:32,560 --> 01:41:38,719
Speaker 1: on it as he was emailing someone trying to blackmail

1911
01:41:38,800 --> 01:41:44,519
Speaker 1: someone else and emailed me wrong by my stake. Employed

1912
01:41:44,680 --> 01:41:50,240
Speaker 1: our copy and paste, damp motherfucker. I don't knew how

1913
01:41:50,280 --> 01:41:54,439
Speaker 1: to copy and pat that moment I copy and pasted

1914
01:41:54,520 --> 01:41:59,800
Speaker 1: said oh what Wow? Did it made that noise? Right?

1915
01:42:00,880 --> 01:42:04,120
Speaker 1: I was? I was like, oh, ship and I got

1916
01:42:04,240 --> 01:42:06,960
Speaker 1: to see like how it was most of the DJs

1917
01:42:07,479 --> 01:42:10,800
Speaker 1: that you know that you have integrity for people that

1918
01:42:10,960 --> 01:42:14,680
Speaker 1: you think has love and respect for this game. Oh,

1919
01:42:14,760 --> 01:42:17,160
Speaker 1: I'm messing up. I funked it up. I was separate

1920
01:42:17,240 --> 01:42:20,360
Speaker 1: there alright, bad um, that you have love and respect

1921
01:42:20,439 --> 01:42:23,680
Speaker 1: for this game. Um, and when they was on that

1922
01:42:23,800 --> 01:42:26,920
Speaker 1: payroll list, that should kind of sucked me up, the

1923
01:42:27,080 --> 01:42:28,800
Speaker 1: kind of suck me up. I'm gonna tell you. I'm

1924
01:42:28,800 --> 01:42:33,320
Speaker 1: gonna tell you who super impressive. I know I can't

1925
01:42:33,320 --> 01:42:36,439
Speaker 1: tell you the list because I might need to pay

1926
01:42:36,520 --> 01:42:40,920
Speaker 1: that as well. I mean, but I'm gonna tell you

1927
01:42:41,040 --> 01:42:44,400
Speaker 1: the super impressed me. Flex wasn't on need not one

1928
01:42:45,080 --> 01:42:48,040
Speaker 1: list at all. Now I'm telling what I was. It

1929
01:42:48,160 --> 01:42:50,960
Speaker 1: was three of them, not one. And I'm looking because

1930
01:42:51,000 --> 01:42:54,240
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, I'm expecting when the Flex is

1931
01:42:54,280 --> 01:42:56,519
Speaker 1: my man, but still like I'm expecting maybe this is

1932
01:42:56,640 --> 01:42:59,400
Speaker 1: false documents. So if it's a false document, you would

1933
01:42:59,520 --> 01:43:02,920
Speaker 1: put the guy in there. And he wasn't on. No, No,

1934
01:43:03,360 --> 01:43:06,360
Speaker 1: that's impressive. And I was like, you know, Flex has integrity,

1935
01:43:06,479 --> 01:43:08,320
Speaker 1: you know, so yeah, this's the end of the day.

1936
01:43:08,680 --> 01:43:10,559
Speaker 1: We may call it the hustle it. Maybe it may

1937
01:43:10,640 --> 01:43:14,280
Speaker 1: be corporate gangster, but what's going on and when there's

1938
01:43:14,280 --> 01:43:17,160
Speaker 1: a lot of money going around, well, any money going around,

1939
01:43:17,720 --> 01:43:20,320
Speaker 1: someone's trying to skim it. Somebody somebody trying to skim it.

1940
01:43:21,200 --> 01:43:24,559
Speaker 1: Have you ever been like approached to like st Street

1941
01:43:24,640 --> 01:43:27,120
Speaker 1: dudes like saying, yo, you know what, could you help

1942
01:43:27,160 --> 01:43:29,720
Speaker 1: me with my street clothing line or something like that,

1943
01:43:30,280 --> 01:43:32,160
Speaker 1: You mean, like trying to put me into pressure. Yeah,

1944
01:43:33,880 --> 01:43:38,000
Speaker 1: because I had already gotten already gotten covered and already

1945
01:43:38,080 --> 01:43:42,280
Speaker 1: had the circle around me. And I also never really

1946
01:43:42,360 --> 01:43:45,200
Speaker 1: moved like that, you know, I wasn't on that dude. Um,

1947
01:43:46,120 --> 01:43:48,519
Speaker 1: so no, but I got a lot of people who

1948
01:43:48,560 --> 01:43:50,200
Speaker 1: ask me to help. I'm like, I can't help me, man.

1949
01:43:50,439 --> 01:43:56,479
Speaker 1: But but I only had I beat honestly, Oh, probably

1950
01:43:56,720 --> 01:43:59,599
Speaker 1: my last twenty five years, I've probably only had two

1951
01:43:59,720 --> 01:44:01,920
Speaker 1: or three people that came at me a little sideways.

1952
01:44:02,560 --> 01:44:05,719
Speaker 1: And then because I knew a lot of people growing

1953
01:44:05,760 --> 01:44:08,640
Speaker 1: up in the streets, some of you know, pull the

1954
01:44:08,720 --> 01:44:10,639
Speaker 1: coach him like yo, man, he's good people. He part

1955
01:44:10,680 --> 01:44:13,000
Speaker 1: of you know, he family leave alone. So God has

1956
01:44:13,000 --> 01:44:15,439
Speaker 1: been really good, you know. And um and and a

1957
01:44:15,520 --> 01:44:17,320
Speaker 1: lot of I'd be like a lot of the hood

1958
01:44:17,400 --> 01:44:19,880
Speaker 1: had in my back. God bless you know. What's your

1959
01:44:19,920 --> 01:44:23,240
Speaker 1: favorite thing about this whole game? If you if you could,

1960
01:44:23,280 --> 01:44:25,280
Speaker 1: if you could adolize one thing and just say, you

1961
01:44:25,320 --> 01:44:27,519
Speaker 1: know what, if there wasn't for this, just it wouldn't

1962
01:44:27,520 --> 01:44:42,840
Speaker 1: be here. I'm just showing people. Um, you know I

1963
01:44:42,880 --> 01:44:44,720
Speaker 1: already said, already kind of said man being able to

1964
01:44:44,840 --> 01:44:46,400
Speaker 1: influence people. Man. And then we went come to me

1965
01:44:46,640 --> 01:44:50,400
Speaker 1: like you thought I've seen you. I didn't, you know.

1966
01:44:50,520 --> 01:44:52,600
Speaker 1: I wanted set of my own business. But also like

1967
01:44:52,760 --> 01:44:55,479
Speaker 1: I was, I went to the Oscars, the Bandy Fair

1968
01:44:55,720 --> 01:44:57,800
Speaker 1: Oscars after party the other day it was a big

1969
01:44:57,840 --> 01:45:02,080
Speaker 1: noise for the flaws. Don't you know you have to

1970
01:45:02,120 --> 01:45:06,000
Speaker 1: spend that back a little bit for a second. I

1971
01:45:06,080 --> 01:45:07,600
Speaker 1: went up there. My name wasn't on the list, but

1972
01:45:08,320 --> 01:45:09,760
Speaker 1: my boy and we don't know the chance he know

1973
01:45:09,880 --> 01:45:13,080
Speaker 1: everybody and they actually knew what I wasn't, like, you know,

1974
01:45:13,120 --> 01:45:15,000
Speaker 1: and I've been told about three times. But every time

1975
01:45:15,080 --> 01:45:17,040
Speaker 1: I go up, I'm in the call. I leave the

1976
01:45:17,080 --> 01:45:20,759
Speaker 1: window walk because I'm like, you know, so they go sorry,

1977
01:45:20,960 --> 01:45:23,760
Speaker 1: you know, you're came like drive off expecting his ride

1978
01:45:23,800 --> 01:45:26,680
Speaker 1: walk because you know, like John Travolton and Captain and

1979
01:45:26,760 --> 01:45:29,240
Speaker 1: say to jump like everybody. Everybody's in there. It's the

1980
01:45:29,280 --> 01:45:31,960
Speaker 1: harder party to get into. But one of the great things.

1981
01:45:32,040 --> 01:45:35,320
Speaker 1: I walk into the Oscar Awards or the Vanity Fair

1982
01:45:35,520 --> 01:45:38,599
Speaker 1: party afterwards. That means a party that only holds two

1983
01:45:38,720 --> 01:45:41,960
Speaker 1: hundred people spit and I don't know so much money,

1984
01:45:42,000 --> 01:45:43,760
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not getting because I don't know what

1985
01:45:43,920 --> 01:45:47,679
Speaker 1: the funk you're talking about. Book walk in there, Kobe

1986
01:45:47,760 --> 01:45:51,400
Speaker 1: and then Jade and Beyonce. I see a Taylor Swift,

1987
01:45:51,520 --> 01:45:53,720
Speaker 1: I see all these actors and I'm walking up to that.

1988
01:45:54,080 --> 01:45:57,080
Speaker 1: Spike walks in with his with his his his oscar,

1989
01:45:57,479 --> 01:46:00,599
Speaker 1: you know this year. I'm talking about the days ago

1990
01:46:01,000 --> 01:46:02,800
Speaker 1: and he walk in and I'm like, and some of

1991
01:46:02,840 --> 01:46:06,599
Speaker 1: the people you know older, so I love Spiking. I'm like, Yo, Spike,

1992
01:46:06,720 --> 01:46:08,240
Speaker 1: you know, let's take this picture, let's get this done

1993
01:46:08,720 --> 01:46:11,920
Speaker 1: on this part. I like the what the crazy dudes

1994
01:46:11,960 --> 01:46:14,080
Speaker 1: that be in the in the commercial, let mean, will

1995
01:46:14,080 --> 01:46:16,439
Speaker 1: be in in a movie like Operating the Fries or

1996
01:46:16,439 --> 01:46:19,000
Speaker 1: something like that. But like, yo, I know you. And

1997
01:46:19,080 --> 01:46:20,800
Speaker 1: the fun thing is like I woke up to other

1998
01:46:21,400 --> 01:46:24,280
Speaker 1: really well known aim lists of everything they'd be like yo.

1999
01:46:25,160 --> 01:46:27,160
Speaker 1: Like Katherine Data Drones said to me one time, me

2000
01:46:27,280 --> 01:46:31,640
Speaker 1: and Michael Douglas watch your show every night. I'm like

2001
01:46:31,880 --> 01:46:37,280
Speaker 1: Wall Street, it's wreckonable, you know what I'm saying. And

2002
01:46:38,200 --> 01:46:41,000
Speaker 1: I think that is one of the things that surprised

2003
01:46:41,120 --> 01:46:46,280
Speaker 1: me all the time. It's like huge, yo. But it's

2004
01:46:46,320 --> 01:46:49,720
Speaker 1: surprising to me because I'm just doing TV, doing what

2005
01:46:49,880 --> 01:46:52,559
Speaker 1: I normally do. I'm having a negotiation. I can't put

2006
01:46:52,600 --> 01:46:54,719
Speaker 1: words together, I can't harm not I'm not an actor

2007
01:46:54,760 --> 01:46:57,040
Speaker 1: and actress. And I walk up to these cats and

2008
01:46:57,040 --> 01:47:01,559
Speaker 1: they're like, yo, I know you, but I got an idea.

2009
01:47:01,600 --> 01:47:04,280
Speaker 1: That's when I like, I ain't with your I steel

2010
01:47:04,320 --> 01:47:09,080
Speaker 1: like movie. That's what it is. Ship man. Let me

2011
01:47:09,160 --> 01:47:11,000
Speaker 1: just tell you something, man. I want to tell you

2012
01:47:11,080 --> 01:47:14,720
Speaker 1: how how real. Um the homie is right here. I

2013
01:47:14,840 --> 01:47:17,360
Speaker 1: happened to come to a party. I've seen them. I

2014
01:47:17,479 --> 01:47:21,000
Speaker 1: gave him a five and I said, Yo, man, he said,

2015
01:47:21,000 --> 01:47:22,840
Speaker 1: I got here. I don't even think you. Let me.

2016
01:47:22,960 --> 01:47:24,840
Speaker 1: Let me finish my sentence, because you already knew what

2017
01:47:24,840 --> 01:47:26,840
Speaker 1: I was asking. I was like, Yo, think I got you.

2018
01:47:27,360 --> 01:47:30,400
Speaker 1: We exchanged numbers. You're a man of your word, superman

2019
01:47:30,439 --> 01:47:32,120
Speaker 1: your world. And let me just tell you something. I've

2020
01:47:32,120 --> 01:47:36,280
Speaker 1: been in this game for going on twenty one years. Um,

2021
01:47:36,479 --> 01:47:38,720
Speaker 1: anytime I've ever reached out to fool Boo, you guys

2022
01:47:38,760 --> 01:47:41,120
Speaker 1: have held me down. Anytime I've reached out the Coolgi,

2023
01:47:41,200 --> 01:47:42,720
Speaker 1: you guys have held me down. So I want to

2024
01:47:42,880 --> 01:47:45,840
Speaker 1: personally thank you because because not only for you being

2025
01:47:45,880 --> 01:47:47,680
Speaker 1: a part of hip hop, but for you holding down

2026
01:47:47,760 --> 01:47:49,920
Speaker 1: hip hop because it's it's it's a it's a one

2027
01:47:50,000 --> 01:47:52,800
Speaker 1: hand you know, watch the other bo and wash the

2028
01:47:53,240 --> 01:47:56,040
Speaker 1: face thing. Because one of the things that I admired

2029
01:47:56,040 --> 01:47:59,040
Speaker 1: about when I first saw a fool Boo was the

2030
01:47:59,120 --> 01:48:02,040
Speaker 1: fact that I was seeing fooboo like damn that sponsor

2031
01:48:02,120 --> 01:48:05,800
Speaker 1: people with videos. Yeah, so you you guys were coming

2032
01:48:05,880 --> 01:48:08,240
Speaker 1: in and we're I don't know, I don't know how

2033
01:48:08,320 --> 01:48:09,800
Speaker 1: you were doing it, but you guys were getting to

2034
01:48:09,840 --> 01:48:12,519
Speaker 1: people to wearing it, and it was it was a

2035
01:48:12,560 --> 01:48:15,240
Speaker 1: part of the culture. So the culture had grown together.

2036
01:48:15,920 --> 01:48:18,400
Speaker 1: And the thing about it is, uh, what I mean

2037
01:48:18,479 --> 01:48:22,519
Speaker 1: by that is the clothing and the music. So I'm

2038
01:48:22,600 --> 01:48:25,439
Speaker 1: so proud of your brand. Like I said, we we

2039
01:48:25,640 --> 01:48:28,240
Speaker 1: when we when me and E f N this is

2040
01:48:28,880 --> 01:48:31,920
Speaker 1: a DJ, I'm you know, a rapper. When we put

2041
01:48:32,000 --> 01:48:33,600
Speaker 1: this together, we wanted to say, you know what, we

2042
01:48:33,680 --> 01:48:36,080
Speaker 1: wanted to control hip hop. We wanted to control the

2043
01:48:36,280 --> 01:48:38,360
Speaker 1: media of hip hop. When people think of hip hop,

2044
01:48:38,439 --> 01:48:40,240
Speaker 1: we want to you know what, you hear it from

2045
01:48:40,280 --> 01:48:43,800
Speaker 1: two people who who is legitimate to twenty years in

2046
01:48:45,120 --> 01:48:48,120
Speaker 1: peace and we wanted to do that. And one of

2047
01:48:48,200 --> 01:48:50,760
Speaker 1: our models is we all the fool boo how this

2048
01:48:50,880 --> 01:48:53,599
Speaker 1: ship and what I'm saying that that's always the big

2049
01:48:53,720 --> 01:48:56,519
Speaker 1: you are and your brothers up all the other three

2050
01:48:56,680 --> 01:48:59,840
Speaker 1: and l L and there's quite five when we go,

2051
01:49:00,160 --> 01:49:04,519
Speaker 1: we gotta do a documentary about this. But um, I

2052
01:49:04,600 --> 01:49:06,920
Speaker 1: want to personally thank you. I want to personally Thank

2053
01:49:06,920 --> 01:49:08,960
Speaker 1: you for being a man of your word personally. Thank

2054
01:49:09,000 --> 01:49:12,960
Speaker 1: you for everything you did personally. Thank you for uh

2055
01:49:13,960 --> 01:49:17,200
Speaker 1: being an inspiration for people to know that you don't

2056
01:49:17,200 --> 01:49:19,439
Speaker 1: always have to be in front of the camera, even

2057
01:49:19,479 --> 01:49:21,519
Speaker 1: though a part of your job is is in front

2058
01:49:21,560 --> 01:49:24,400
Speaker 1: of the camera. But being you know that clothing line,

2059
01:49:24,720 --> 01:49:28,280
Speaker 1: being that brand that buying other brands and and and

2060
01:49:28,479 --> 01:49:30,360
Speaker 1: showing people that you don't have to be on the

2061
01:49:30,439 --> 01:49:32,519
Speaker 1: mic is whatever. You know what I'm saying. You don't

2062
01:49:32,520 --> 01:49:34,519
Speaker 1: have to rap, you don't have to wrap you, and

2063
01:49:34,640 --> 01:49:36,439
Speaker 1: you don't have the DJ or bi a producer. You

2064
01:49:36,479 --> 01:49:38,880
Speaker 1: could be something and be a part of the culture.

2065
01:49:38,960 --> 01:49:41,080
Speaker 1: I love the culture, and you're the epitome of that,

2066
01:49:41,240 --> 01:49:43,600
Speaker 1: my brother. When people look at the word are entrepreneurs,

2067
01:49:43,840 --> 01:49:47,679
Speaker 1: they should see your motherfucking face. I'm calling the dictionary myself.

2068
01:49:48,880 --> 01:49:51,160
Speaker 1: They do that, and my brother, I'm so proud to

2069
01:49:51,240 --> 01:49:53,040
Speaker 1: know you. I'm so proud for that that you that

2070
01:49:53,160 --> 01:49:55,360
Speaker 1: every time I see you, we always smile at each

2071
01:49:55,400 --> 01:49:58,400
Speaker 1: other and we're always having fun. And I really appreciate

2072
01:49:58,439 --> 01:50:00,519
Speaker 1: the fact that you pulled up. I appreciate my man,

2073
01:50:00,600 --> 01:50:02,519
Speaker 1: big homie. And then always every time I see him

2074
01:50:02,520 --> 01:50:05,519
Speaker 1: holding me down, I appreciate a foo boo period. I

2075
01:50:05,560 --> 01:50:07,280
Speaker 1: appreciate what you did to them for the coach. I

2076
01:50:07,320 --> 01:50:09,920
Speaker 1: appreciate shark Tank. I appreciate you're not shutting down my

2077
01:50:09,960 --> 01:50:14,759
Speaker 1: sneaking because I'm really serious about my and I appreciate

2078
01:50:14,800 --> 01:50:21,320
Speaker 1: you coming to that holding down drink Chap. And just

2079
01:50:21,439 --> 01:50:24,240
Speaker 1: so you know, this Saturday, for everybody in the room,

2080
01:50:24,479 --> 01:50:29,920
Speaker 1: we got drink Champs. Appreciate your day. From eight to twelve.

2081
01:50:29,960 --> 01:50:31,840
Speaker 1: We gotta do eight to twelve, not six to nine,

2082
01:50:32,680 --> 01:50:35,000
Speaker 1: eight to twelve this Saturday, not se twelve. We got

2083
01:50:35,120 --> 01:50:40,000
Speaker 1: because we got daylight self at six at six, right

2084
01:50:40,080 --> 01:50:43,120
Speaker 1: at six six six. So yeah, man, we love y'all,

2085
01:50:43,320 --> 01:50:49,360
Speaker 1: Thank y'all, good night. You got, damn it your great interview,

2086
01:50:49,439 --> 01:50:51,080
Speaker 1: my friend. Yeah, you got