WEBVTT - Episode 167 w/ Daymond John 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:16.920 And his Drink Chas motherfucking podcast. He's a legendary Queen's rappers. 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:20.920 He's is your boy in O R. He's a Miami hippoper, mioneer. 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:23.520 What up is d j e f N? Together they 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:26.479 drinking up with some of the biggest players in the 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:31.000 most professional unprofessional podcast. And your number one sorts for 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:35.480 drunk back rich Mother is new Yez. That's his time 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:45.680 for drink Champs. Trick up mother Mother? Would it goold be? 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:47.879 Hopeles would sooner be? This is your boy in O R? 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:50.520 What up is d j e f This is drink Champs? 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:56.800 Yapp y'all gonna make up now now Eve. When it 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:02.640 comes to entrepreneura, he spell. Don't know when it comes 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:05.680 to a person. When I've read that his first job 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:09.280 was handing out flyers, I've read that the man the 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:12.600 rand worked in Red Love Stuff. Why he was owning 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:17.040 a very fortunate company. He has grinded. He has continue 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:20.000 non stop board in Brooklyn, but raised in Queens and 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:24.080 we and Queens, we claim him, we claim him, quote 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:27.560 and um. He's relentless. He's has one of the biggest 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:31.319 shows that won the Emmy Emmy Award. Run We got 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:36.280 at all. And if you don't know what we talk about, 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:42.760 we're talking about the shop. Take first person. Thank you 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:47.680 for being here. You're definitely one of the people that 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:51.160 when I think of arentrepreneur, I think of you. I 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.800 think of how devin there you are, like, you know 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:57.480 what I'm saying, how uh put together? I think that 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:59.160 I think it should be more of you. You know 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:01.520 what I'm saying, Like, I think you're like a great 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:03.840 role bottel for us. Thank you, brother, appreciate that. So 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:05.960 would that being said, Let's take it from the beginning right, 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.919 because I read that was that really your first job 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.079 handed out flyers had on hand on flyer Colosseum hall, 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:17.840 so that years old, but that the Colisseum hall was 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.920 was being opened up, so hand out flies. I mean, 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:22.840 I don't, I don't hold along. So you're telling me 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:26.519 the Colosseum wasn't even open, wasn't even used because like Mazee, 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:28.400 that didn't went Bankruph. So I was hand out flies 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:30.400 to that and I did every job I could write, 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:33.920 you know, like during the winter, I shovel snow in 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.520 the in the in the in four rake leaves. But 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:38.400 when I was shoveling snow. I had so many people 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:40.640 that wanted me to get to the sidewalk that I 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:42.679 would give the other kids in the neighborhood. Half the 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:44.639 money that I would make to go and shovel the sidewalks, 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:49.520 I could sit at home and you know, so, um, 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:51.720 then I's going to find bike watch on the street 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:53.720 and before you know, the two months, i'd have a 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.640 fully assembled bike through they through the shot out. So, 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:00.040 I mean, I've been trying to hustle ever since. And 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.080 then I started working the churches, ride chicken, and then 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:04.240 I worked at the popcorn stand, and then I worked 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:15.200 through a lot. Do you remember church? Some suicies about churches. 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:19.559 So so I've been working since day one. So so, um, 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:23.720 what was your first successful business, like besides food? Obviously, 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:25.360 what was the first one that you just like, you 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:27.400 know what this is busy business is where I belonged? 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:29.920 Or even what's probably the better questions, what was the 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.239 first business that failed to help you learn what you 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:34.560 need to learn for the first successful? Even better? I 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:36.600 think I think those are those are those are both 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:38.720 great questions for two different reasons. Number One, the first 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:42.400 business I got into was I had this idea about 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:45.480 buying crash cars because at that time, we buy a 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.320 crash car, your boys will find a pause for it, 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:52.320 you know. And buying in the auction. I don't know 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:59.040 how they found the problem. They just so and and 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.440 then you would put you so you buy there into 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.320 it and you sell it in fifty right. So I 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.440 had the plan, you know, I was about sixteen, seven 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:09.760 years old, and I like to say that, you know, 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.520 I did my numbers, and I looked at at sixteen. 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:14.320 If I keep doubling down on that, i'd be a 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.840 millionaire by twenty. However, Mike Tysons, you know, he has 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:19.760 that saying, you know, everybody got a plan until they 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.080 get punched in the face. Life touched me in the 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:26.160 face and about you know, six months and um, and 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:28.960 I didn't have any money. Now. The reality of what 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.200 I realized was I didn't like to fix cars. I 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:35.120 don't know how it was. I was so busy thinking 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:38.040 about the money that I didn't like what I was doing. 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.200 So I had no urge to get up or I 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:44.479 wouldn't want to do it again. All right, fast foward. 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:45.960 Now what I started to do. I get this this 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.520 vand this piece of crap jump ye over and a 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.600 fifteen passenger, and I started running up and down, guy, 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:54.320 are broad of Merrick Boulevard and Rockaway picking up people 0:04:54.360 --> 0:05:04.560 for dollar driver in the world. So listen to this 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:08.640 inspire and I was it was you that was the driver. 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.720 I was the driver show. So I'll show you at 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.240 this point right at that point about seventeen, trying to 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:18.360 start off at Parsons Boulevard, go down god Rod at 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.200 the Rose, all the way Rockaway Beach one sixteen. And 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.280 so let me just explain, because keep you let me 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:28.560 just think we're talking. Yeah, I don't know. This is 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.080 a sertain part in a certain part where the trains 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.919 don't go, and there's certain parts even busses don't go. 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.520 So what happens is it's these vans that they come 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:38.480 and they pick up a whole bunch of people. Yea, 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:40.760 we call them dollar vans because it would be a 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:42.640 dollar at the time, and then they would take it 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:44.560 to the parts that the trains don't go, especially in 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.280 Queen's Queens a big barrel. So so you got a 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:48.800 person on there for a dollar. By time, you know, 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:50.720 you have fifteen people on. By time people go on 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.039 and off you go all the way down. You could 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.200 have forty fifty dollars. You can have three hundred dollars. 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.400 During the course of the day, however, I'll go to 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.000 areas where a lot of the band drivers do wouldn't 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:04.839 to go. I'm going deep into far rockaway. Why you know, 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:09.760 my man had the ratchet on the side because security. 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:11.480 Let me tell you something the first time. Here's what 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.440 happened about fifteen people in Bend. I picked him. The 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:16.560 fifteen dudes I picked up from the subway, they just 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:20.080 got came from tunnel or something like that. Right, they're 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:23.240 getting the van and I get always last stop. And 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.440 you know, we all got nicknames in the hood. So 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.719 one was like, gets out the bed, your crime got it, 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:31.880 Your crime got it. Your crime got about trying got there, 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:33.440 but you're crime, you got He was like your ho 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:39.719 crying no pain. And I realized I needed that. I 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:44.360 needed a catch yourself. Yeah you know, so we're gonna 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:45.880 we're gonna salute to you. I don't know, I don't 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.159 know a ball our show. Our show was about salute 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:50.920 with a legend, like to give you your flowers while 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:52.520 you hit. Because a lot of people want to say 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.440 how great people are when live when they're gone and 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.120 they passed away, we want to tell you how great 0:06:56.120 --> 0:07:00.120 you are. We gonna until you doing anything than you 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:06.719 then just supposed to make some lawyers. Man, let's do 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.679 it again. So hold on. So you did the dollar 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:13.480 ban now and thenn't and you got crying paid that time? 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.760 So what what? What? What was your next after that? 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.280 So so that one is actually successful one. But I 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:20.920 looked at three or four years of doing it, and 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:25.200 I realized that I didn't actually make money. I didn't 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:28.280 net anything because after paying for it was a junkie man. 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:32.600 They after paying for it, breaking down the tickets, insurance, 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:37.160 I was netting nothing. And I had to physically be 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:40.840 there to make a dollar. I mean that dollar wasn't 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:44.160 ringing when I was sleeping. So I go back to 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.040 a lobster. I take that ban, I take all the 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.080 seats out of it. I started putting t shirts in it. 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.520 I started sleeping in it sometimes. Right now, I'm not 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.360 I'm going to other people get anything for them. Actually, 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.680 the first printing company, the first thing I ran off 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:01.480 really was a shirt that said, um, what they did 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:03.840 to Rodney King, they would do to you. That's the 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:07.440 first one I started selling on the treats um and 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:09.760 I was working to Red Lobster. Now we're working the van. 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:12.720 Now I we're using the van uh to carry my 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.320 clothes around and all that kinds of like the Rodney 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:19.320 King Churchy. You're investing into what you're doing, and were 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.160 lots of money. I'm chilling at the moment, and then 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.120 then all of a sudden, the idea of food who 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.520 comes around because I started hearing the brands didn't respect 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.920 whether hip hop African Americans in our city kids, and 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.200 they didn't value them. And it wasn't Mad the main 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:33.000 company at that time. They weren't on They're not don't 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.400 want the same one now. Also described that at the 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:43.319 time there is no rocket wear them to exist and 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:46.319 they had already inspired me. However, they were very West 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:48.920 Coast and a lot of times growing up, you know 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:52.240 in our community, if you wanted to show without saying 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:58.280 that that you were wearing something of African Americans, it's great. 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:08.559 Ship used to be used to be the rooms that 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:15.720 you've been flowing off. Were you respecting and sure you 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.280 had love for African African Americans. It was always can 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:22.439 take colors, even cross colors. It was always purple green yell, 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.839 and I was like, yo, man, why do we why 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:27.480 do we gotta be that? It was last super loud, 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.440 I can'tn't wear something cool and then cats know that 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.480 that it's us. So so that's when I came up 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:36.040 with food for us bias right and then okay, and 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:38.360 that that was four of y'all correct. It was always 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:40.920 five of us originally, but the fifth member never stayed around. 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.400 Oh wow, that's why you see big go five on 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.640 all the jerseys. But that fifth member would never say. 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:48.160 It would be like, yo, just work for six months 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.640 and put in putting uh ten hours a week, but 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:54.000 nobody ever saw division. So five years we ran through 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.800 five separate all though the fifth member was our else 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:01.080 no no, I always wanted to access just question, okay, 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:05.920 so GAT has this commercial right, it's a GAT commercial gap, 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:12.120 but it's got the right. Is that the first like 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.120 and he said in it for us by us on 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:18.559 the low. So it was that the first time like 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:22.240 foodoo got national recognition. We had already had a little 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.520 bit of national recognition because I think a couple of 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:31.360 people a warden won their video videos, um CODB Mrs Jones, 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:36.760 TODB um, who else Method Man and a couple of 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.880 people have already warned all brand Nubian. So so they 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:41.800 had already when they warn an ice cream video and 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.480 a lot of a couple of other things. And I 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.080 think ll Award in the Hey Love of video, he's 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.480 sitting on the rock and queens and then but that's 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:52.720 when we had already had our distribution deal and Gap 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.280 called of LLL and he didn't really he didn't value them. 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.080 He didn't like the way they spoke to him. They 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.320 spoke to him pretty much like listen, LLL, whatever your 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:00.960 name is or what are you? What do you want 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.319 of those rappers? Right? So we we need when we 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:05.800 didn't get to a little hippy hopper kids, you know, 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:07.839 and I know that you know that. I remember the 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.040 dude say something like, Yo, I'm white. My daughter sixteen 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.440 years old and white. She's running around house talking about 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:14.880 fight the power and after police. So I think we're 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:16.560 big enough now hip hop is big enough, So can 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:20.160 you come in and do this, uh this commercial. That's 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.120 why I always say something about L meaning like you 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.000 know a lot of people want influencers and brand, you know, 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.680 people like that, but you can't have somebody your PEPSI. 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:34.240 You can't have them drinking Coca cola. L L live right. Um, now, 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:35.640 how how did that? How did that come from you? 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:39.480 You're l didn't grow up together? Oh? Was was that? Like? 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:41.959 Was that like your person? You thought of the model? 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:43.679 Now we we we all grew up in the same 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:45.880 neighbor So we're all working hot okay, okay, And the 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:49.280 funny story is else from Farmers right on pharm But 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:51.600 but I lived on Farmers, Billboard and Queens, so you 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.120 had obviously L Salt and Pappa run DMC s fight 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.079 d all of the job. We all live in the 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:59.280 same neighborhood. And it's funny. I used to be a 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.199 roadie and we used to always skip out of school 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:04.079 or like fourteen years old to go on tour and 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.839 raising hell and all and pushed speakers around. He went 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:08.920 on those tours, one of those toys, and I had 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:16.480 three other friends. When the tour's that's we're gonna But 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.480 I always say I was, So I had three other friends. 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:20.080 I was like, Ye're gonna be the biggest dude in fashion. 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.000 My other dude was like, I'm gonna be the biggest 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:23.920 dude in movies. My mother dude was like, I'm gonna 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:25.800 be the biggest dude in music, and my mother dude said, 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.480 I'm gonna be the biggest drug dealer. The dude who 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:30.760 it was so with me. The other dude who said 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:34.000 movies was Hype Williams. The other dude who said records 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.840 was is IRV Gotti. And the other dude ended up 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.160 becoming the biggest drug deal because Hype wrote a movie 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:41.880 about him called Belly and he's still in jail. So 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.480 at fourteen years old, we kind of all had had 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:46.800 this desire. We didn't know what it was gonna be, 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:51.160 but we all, you know, aspired to be the top 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:53.920 of our industry. You know. Now you get these brands 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.000 out right now right, Um, it's a big controversy right now. 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:01.599 Got product. Yeah, you got Gooch who was very is 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:06.920 very disappointing to me personally because of the Dappa Dan association. 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.600 Uh and who else is it? Mount Clay? I believe 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:14.920 is it? Is it? So? How how does a person 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:19.440 like you who has so much success and you you 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:23.079 could probably a person could probably say that you can 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.320 be out of touch because of you know, how many 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:27.560 how do you like? How does how does the person. 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.120 How does the coucci you boys ship like that? How? How? 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.199 How do how do people even make mistakes like that? 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.880 I guess you know. I I have two hats to 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.160 put on that one. There's about fifteen steps to go 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:41.040 through to make a make a garment, and it's hard 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.960 figure And normally when we make a garment, like see 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:45.920 the poem piece wearing, I have the same piece with 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.360 the big cat on it. You make you can make 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.920 what we call a capsule. Okay, just the shift team 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.240 or twenty pieces. You don't just make different you know. 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.240 This is the this is the theme right now. So 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:57.520 the half that I have one that said that they 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.679 didn't know what they were doing is the hat saying that, 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.800 you know, we can't be conscious of every single sensitive 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:06.000 thing to every single person because these people are in Italy. 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.640 It's like me if I decided to put Indians and 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:10.920 call redskins on something, and all of a sudden, because 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.959 I Native Americans have been prosecuted and treated so bad, 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:16.480 they take offense to it, or I put up I 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:20.000 put something on these or something like that, or yeah, 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.960 you know what I'm saying. Uh, and so so the 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.600 in sensitive part in some aspects. I I don't know 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:28.120 what they were doing, but I don't know if they 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.360 knew what they were doing. Some people say, well, they 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.240 only came to the Japanese. Well, I've been to Japan 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:34.960 when I've seen I've seen the Japanese kids wear black face. 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:39.520 Where next Jersey's Yankee has and breakdance because of homage 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:42.920 to the clouds where they go dressed. They go there 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.560 and they are saying we want to be black. So 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:49.160 I don't know on that side. However, if you usually 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:52.320 make a capsule collection and you only make one piece, 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.920 okay when you say capsule pieces in it, because you're 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:57.880 gonna like, you know, like my line is a hundred 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:01.280 and fifty pieces. This year I got fift team capsule collections. 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:05.800 One's going to be Army, one's going to be whatever, whatever, 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.920 you know, VOTs whatever. If you only put one black 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:13.120 face on one item, that sounds like I need somebody 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:17.440 to talk about this. So I don't know really when 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.280 the intent was a company of white issues, it's someone 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.480 that green liant that one particular item. That is because 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.600 I can't say that question again because I just guess 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:28.520 don't want to just say something, but because I can't 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.400 see Gucci as a as a brand that knows, like 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:33.440 you know, rock Camp has been you know, rocking it 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:37.720 since the eighties. I can't see them being that. But 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:40.480 after saying token, why is there is people on the 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:43.120 board like, well, the board don't get to see it. 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:45.840 I mean because when the board is thinking right now 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.840 about how many stories are we gonna open globally? Who else? 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:53.040 So we're gonna acquire how our sharehold is dealing with it. 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.400 The designers are usually probably going to be young kids 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.360 who are designing for a while. Then they go to 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:01.760 a design director. The designed director sends it to a 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:05.080 manufacturer in Italy, most likely in Japan and Hong Kong. 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:07.880 Stuff like that. You probably didn't run across African Americans 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:11.360 throughout that whole process if you're an Italian company, so 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:14.000 it may have slipped through. Okay, And what was I mean? 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:15.520 You kind of answered, I'm saying, is it is it 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:18.240 a company wide problem? Or is it one person that 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:21.480 green lit that one particular item? Didn't the one green land? 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:23.080 You know? And when I saw it, isn't it wasn't 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:27.400 it like a rolled up here? How do we even 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:31.080 know they ever saw the turtle that rolled up. I 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:34.560 don't know. Now however you got product going now on 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.640 the running way with a noose hanging on a shirt? 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:42.520 Who was that? That was Burberry losing Berberry product? Burberry bad. 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:44.280 I don't want, I don't want to brush the product 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:49.840 with the wrong brush. But it's it's not often contrived 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.240 and really thought well out when you come into art 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:57.640 and design, it's really not right. Um what what? What? 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:00.960 Damn them? Kind of kind of guy? I mean, but 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:04.639 should should? I don't think that anybody in within the 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:09.280 hip hop culture should be surprised at those companies making 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:11.480 those kind of mistakes. I don't think we should be. 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.920 I think I think I got to my personal opinion, 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.639 surprise day of time been showing that much love to 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:19.960 those companies. It should be more of your companies and 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:21.800 companies like yours in this day and time. I mean, 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:23.879 you know from before too. I don't know if you know, 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.400 but we call ourselves. We say were the digital food. 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:31.600 We've been saying that, and why is it? Why is that? Like? 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.040 Because again when I Google you, I don't know if 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:36.640 it said that you got spent six billion dollars worth 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:39.719 six billion dollars, But we we we sold. Over the 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:43.040 course of our existence, we sold six billion dollars worth 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:50.920 of retail sales. So thank everybody that help. So why 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:54.120 isn't there? Why isn't there more brands? Like? Why isn't there? 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.320 Like immediately, like one thing that I did like, uh 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.040 not one thing. This is amongst many things that I like. 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.719 Is when jay Z went and stepped to a um 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:09.040 Chrystal Christal gave Brazilion resistance. Crystal didn't want to be 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:14.119 down with him. Immediately, jay Z had alternative, Let's go 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:16.119 with a space. A space is a lot of a 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:19.159 lot of people's budgets. I realized, how, why why everybody 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.639 couldn't switch from Chrystal Ace. But at least there was 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:25.960 an alternative. Right now, what is the alternative to Gucci? 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:28.440 What is the alternatives the product? What is the alternative 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:32.479 to mont Claire? Oh, there's They're there is plenty. Like 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.400 I'm seeing it. I'm seeing it more and more every day. 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.760 I'm seeing a lot of young people of various different 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:40.479 shades and colors. I'm seeing them create small lines. You know, 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.480 you know, back then you have these brands with the 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:45.440 huge numbers. You know, when I got into the business, 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:47.760 I think Levis was doing like eighteen billions. I think 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:51.800 they're doing now three billions. And why when you've got 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:54.280 a lot of kids that you see at home making 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:57.200 their T shirts and sweatshirts and they're doing a million 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.359 of piece, but they're doing it off their iPhones and 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:01.440 you got a meal your kids doing that. So it's 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:04.040 there in some way, and you know in the street 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:07.240 where and the akator, it's still there at some level. 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:09.800 You're just seeing a lot of the heavy advertising and 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:11.840 marketing by the only the couple of brands that are 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:15.320 lasting these days, because look at retail, retail is almost dead, right, 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:19.439 where's anybody going to buy retail? Correct? Yeah? So I'm 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:22.560 line right. So you're only seeing the advertising and in 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:24.679 the branding by them, and it doesn't just happen an 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:27.720 African American or or or colors of mine orn. I mean, 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:30.960 where is Benetton these days? I don't know. I don't know. 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:36.760 I don't let's say teeth at least, you know what 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.280 I mean? Like, where are those brands? So a lot 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:40.840 of time we want to we want to act like 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:43.320 you know, it's only one way or another, But it 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:45.359 happens to everybody in one way. Or another. And when 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:46.840 we look at Goucci when we were talking, we're talking 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:50.160 about the unicorns, Nike. You we're talk about unicorns, man. 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:51.879 But at the end of the day, you know, it 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:53.879 really happens. And trust me, I'm not this whole. I'm 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:56.440 not trying. I'm not trying to fight in Gucci's defense. 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:58.199 I'm just laying it down. So when we're walking the 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:00.240 room and we talk to other people with don't have 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:02.399 that chip on our shoulder like everything's happening us know 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:04.879 what's happening to other people too. But you're just feeling 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:06.720 it more. And I respect that, you know. And you 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:09.640 guys got a new deal poople, Right, Well, um, who 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:13.040 is it? You go? We have a we have a 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:16.639 lot of you sent me. We just did something century 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:20.119 Century twenty one. I think we're doing also a Ladies 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:23.080 line with Forever twenty one. Um, and these are all 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:26.200 small collaborations, you know, we're just trying to get with whoever. 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:29.239 We like. This cool because the resurgence, all brands come 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:31.320 back twenty years for a little while, and a lot 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:32.840 of people just want to feel about the field the 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:35.560 nineties and the two thousand's, Right, did you ever get 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:39.280 slacked for acquiring the Cougie brand, and because you know 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:42.840 the reason why I say that probably bugging like slack, 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:48.280 because everyone kind of looked at Cougie as like Italian brand, 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:51.600 right right, you know what I'm saying, because originally that's 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:55.639 what it was, right, Italian and in Italy and Australia. 0:20:55.840 --> 0:20:59.160 And now now they gave us love. I mean because 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:01.840 initially when we when we purchased Cougie was in bankruptcy 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:04.640 and you can only they only had eight hundred dollars sweaters. 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:08.160 And then we started making more affordable stuff. We still 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:11.280 have that was heavily woven sweaters because there's only two 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:13.840 machines in the world that can knit that sweater. However, 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:16.040 we started to make other stuff and and actually Cougie 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:19.159 ended up becoming really really good for us, so we 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:23.080 never got slapping and that stuff. Okay, yeah, you do 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:27.879 you do on Cougi And how what year was that 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:30.320 that was? That wasn't what Biggie was. We Couji no 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:36.400 no no. We around two thousand and three, and at 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:38.440 first nobody wanted to wear it. And I was doing 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:40.920 all the product integration for these three girls named the 0:21:40.960 --> 0:21:44.760 Kardashians and nobody knew about And I remember going around 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:47.240 all the brands. I feel like you love that floor, 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:50.160 love that flaw. I remember going around all my friends 0:21:50.160 --> 0:21:51.920 with the brand. I was like, yo, s they'll wear 0:21:52.080 --> 0:21:56.000 your clothes for the whole season for seventy five thousand dollars. 0:21:56.560 --> 0:21:58.639 And it's like, now, it ain't gonna be nothing. So 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:01.280 if you look at the first three seasons of Sin 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:03.320 when they just launched the real yeah, when you look 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:05.639 at the first three season Kardashians, they weren't all cooji 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:08.840 because I was like, man, I'm sorry, girls, I can't 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:11.040 really you know, getting all the people behind you, but 0:22:11.520 --> 0:22:13.879 I got you here you go because I knew you're 0:22:13.880 --> 0:22:16.520 gonna be something. How how do how do you how 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:18.879 do you determine things like that? How did how did 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:21.040 you you know? Because l L is like a different 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:22.680 type of person, like you know, for you to allow 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:24.960 yourself with l L. And this is a guy who's 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:27.960 you know, been around for thirty thirty five years. Yeah 0:22:28.000 --> 0:22:29.720 you know what I'm saying. So how do you allign 0:22:29.760 --> 0:22:31.320 with people like that? How do you see star is 0:22:31.440 --> 0:22:33.520 m in a person? Well? L was always a big 0:22:33.560 --> 0:22:36.080 star to me. He was he was already a huge 0:22:36.160 --> 0:22:39.720 star show. It wasn't me having an opportunity in regards 0:22:39.720 --> 0:22:42.440 to me helping him out. It was him reaching down 0:22:42.560 --> 0:22:45.280 and helping me out. Um. And like whenever we go 0:22:45.359 --> 0:22:48.440 after mentors or other people, it's what's in it for them, 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:51.720 you know. I had to make it very advantageous to him. 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:55.000 So what I had to do was dress everybody around him. First. 0:22:55.840 --> 0:22:58.200 I dressed all the bodyguards, the big dudes with the 0:22:58.560 --> 0:23:02.640 five exits who would never nobody ever made anything flo show. 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:04.360 All of a sudden, they're wearing it now, and they're 0:23:04.359 --> 0:23:06.120 wearing it more because you dressed a little skinny kid 0:23:06.119 --> 0:23:08.600 with the funny mustache, you know, the skateboard. He throwing 0:23:08.600 --> 0:23:10.639 it away a week later, but you dressed the big 0:23:10.720 --> 0:23:13.440 dude who can't get nothing. He winning it for a 0:23:13.520 --> 0:23:16.080 year straight after that. And then he always in front 0:23:16.119 --> 0:23:17.879 of the club or pushing somebody out the way to 0:23:17.960 --> 0:23:21.560 walking Bill. Yeah. So after that, L was like, hey, yo, baby, 0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:23.840 what's up with me? And I didn't want to bother you. Baby. 0:23:23.840 --> 0:23:26.120 I didn't bother but I got a couple of shirts 0:23:26.240 --> 0:23:30.080 you right there. So I had to make it really 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:32.080 flopped at him. And then I went after you always 0:23:32.119 --> 0:23:34.680 go after the local lead. I went after round me 0:23:34.720 --> 0:23:47.200 getting everybody always sorry, yeah everybody, Yeah, don't worry about 0:23:47.640 --> 0:23:50.560 I don't make sure the law of that. Everybody always 0:23:50.600 --> 0:23:53.800 wanting what's that? What's hell? Partner was? He was? He 0:23:53.840 --> 0:23:55.679 a Parker. That was the little part of my spokes 0:23:55.720 --> 0:23:58.639 first and who who who are who? Who got to 0:23:58.720 --> 0:24:01.760 partake in any profit afterwards? And it was because he's 0:24:01.760 --> 0:24:03.560 a smart businessman. He was like, I don't want to 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:05.800 be around with the losses there. I won't only be 0:24:05.880 --> 0:24:08.920 around in the case apart deal kind of like rosy 0:24:09.000 --> 0:24:10.760 deal on the upside of stuff. And he and he 0:24:10.920 --> 0:24:12.960 that's why he went out and busted his ass. And 0:24:13.080 --> 0:24:16.879 that's why obviously, um we were very beneficial of that 0:24:16.880 --> 0:24:20.600 because after he wore everybody want to wear, everybody want 0:24:20.600 --> 0:24:24.480 to rock out? You know that was Flatform and Russell 0:24:24.600 --> 0:24:27.200 involved at any point or did you ever trying to 0:24:27.600 --> 0:24:30.280 get through because Platform was a company to that. Flatform 0:24:30.320 --> 0:24:33.159 also existed first. But Russell came to us and was 0:24:33.280 --> 0:24:37.359 like a man, you know, I know the rector business. 0:24:37.359 --> 0:24:39.840 I don't know this business that well. And because Russell's 0:24:39.840 --> 0:24:41.600 a legend to me, you know, we um we actually 0:24:41.640 --> 0:24:45.160 distributed his clothes and in Europe, and then we hooked 0:24:45.200 --> 0:24:47.719 him up with the guy who would end up really 0:24:47.800 --> 0:24:50.920 helping him so um so, and then we were obviously 0:24:51.119 --> 0:24:53.520 very happy about that. We always wanted to see other 0:24:53.640 --> 0:24:57.920 cats who were part of the world be able to 0:24:58.000 --> 0:25:00.600 benefit off of it, you know, so so we would 0:25:00.640 --> 0:25:02.520 because you know, you know, listen, man, you can't stop 0:25:02.520 --> 0:25:06.360 anybody already got dried, and you know you always want 0:25:06.359 --> 0:25:09.120 to be part of the bridge if you can. That's 0:25:09.119 --> 0:25:10.720 what all the hate is out there. Who don't realize that. 0:25:11.480 --> 0:25:14.280 Was there any rival reason amongst these these brands that 0:25:14.320 --> 0:25:16.680 were kind of competing for the same market. Absolutely, and 0:25:16.760 --> 0:25:18.480 you know, so we were able to really you know, 0:25:18.760 --> 0:25:21.040 cross colors and Calk and I broke around for us. 0:25:21.119 --> 0:25:23.800 They inspired us, they opened the door. We came in 0:25:23.920 --> 0:25:25.639 and took it to another level. And we came in 0:25:26.680 --> 0:25:29.280 right after they were slowing down a little bit, right 0:25:29.359 --> 0:25:32.960 before Paul Russa really got to blast. So we had 0:25:33.000 --> 0:25:35.240 a really good run at it. But when we really 0:25:35.320 --> 0:25:37.480 saw it going and they saw to get going, of course, 0:25:37.480 --> 0:25:40.399 there's only limited space in any store for any brand, right, 0:25:40.480 --> 0:25:42.400 so of course they would they would be the rivalry. 0:25:42.880 --> 0:25:44.760 It wouldn't be a rivalry in the streets with us. 0:25:44.760 --> 0:25:46.879 We wouldn't have no issues. You know. We wasn't like 0:25:47.000 --> 0:25:49.920 y'all caps will be like yo man, East Coast, West Coast. 0:25:50.359 --> 0:25:54.359 You know, I would be like extra sec. I'm not, 0:25:55.000 --> 0:25:58.840 but you know, but of course it was a friendly robbery. 0:25:58.920 --> 0:26:02.040 I mean, I put you know, I introduced Paul to 0:26:02.080 --> 0:26:04.919 a guy named Jeff Tweete who runs his company, because 0:26:05.320 --> 0:26:07.200 you know, I knew I couldn't take Jeff Tweete on 0:26:07.320 --> 0:26:09.600 and I wanted him to help up. I didn't think 0:26:09.600 --> 0:26:12.920 Puff was gonna be that hot. But again, you can't stop. 0:26:12.960 --> 0:26:14.480 You can't stop people. But yeah, of course it was 0:26:14.480 --> 0:26:18.080 always a friendly business. I'm showing your businesses, who's selling 0:26:18.160 --> 0:26:19.879 a song? This is my man, but he's killing it, 0:26:19.960 --> 0:26:21.560 you know what I mean, on my own evil what 0:26:21.680 --> 0:26:23.560 she's killing it. And it seems that these brands, the 0:26:23.600 --> 0:26:26.399 brands you mentioned, they learned off for you guys, because 0:26:26.720 --> 0:26:31.200 the partner's stores weren't carrying like hip hop clothing until 0:26:31.320 --> 0:26:33.960 like tail end of the nineties, early two thousand. Because 0:26:33.960 --> 0:26:36.040 I had a clothing store, and I remember I had 0:26:36.119 --> 0:26:38.440 to I went out of business once locally was bird 0:26:38.520 --> 0:26:41.080 Iss and then became Macy's. When they started carrying it, 0:26:41.160 --> 0:26:43.399 I couldn't even compete with those marks happened. So so 0:26:43.520 --> 0:26:45.880 first of all, a lot of those big stores wouldn't 0:26:46.000 --> 0:26:48.520 carry our brand. I even heard something like, Yo, there's 0:26:48.520 --> 0:26:51.040 who are black guys on the hang tag? People don't 0:26:51.040 --> 0:26:54.359 come and have shootouts, they're gonna start shoplifting. But a 0:26:54.480 --> 0:26:58.080 local store like, yeah, we would support always the local entrepreneur. 0:26:58.160 --> 0:27:00.760 Because the local entrepreneur, they it would tell they why 0:27:00.760 --> 0:27:04.080 ambassador they were, They would as soon as they sell 0:27:04.119 --> 0:27:05.760 stuff in one week they called back, I need more 0:27:05.840 --> 0:27:07.320 Macy's or one of the big guys are gonna call 0:27:07.359 --> 0:27:10.000 back every quarter or whatever the case it. What they 0:27:10.080 --> 0:27:12.200 found out is like two years into it, they found 0:27:12.240 --> 0:27:15.399 out the guys like you, who had one store now 0:27:15.480 --> 0:27:18.640 had six, and they were like, yeah, we're missing the mark. 0:27:19.080 --> 0:27:21.119 And that's why they kind of let us all of 0:27:21.200 --> 0:27:23.600 us kind of in at the same around the same time, 0:27:23.600 --> 0:27:27.000 because they were like, we need this section because we 0:27:27.160 --> 0:27:30.320 can't have the kids going down the block or staying 0:27:30.320 --> 0:27:32.760 in the hood and not coming here. So that's how 0:27:32.880 --> 0:27:34.920 you know, everybody gets on everything and something like what 0:27:35.320 --> 0:27:38.520 cryptocurrency today and see today everybody's gonna it's gonna take 0:27:38.520 --> 0:27:40.640 a while to bubble and then you know they're gonna 0:27:40.640 --> 0:27:42.720 they're gonna get on it. Now, what did food will 0:27:42.760 --> 0:27:44.479 Ever do? Like because you see how like if we're 0:27:44.600 --> 0:27:47.080 a rocket where they sold like they say they sold 0:27:47.119 --> 0:27:49.359 it from like two hundred three hundred million, like the 0:27:49.440 --> 0:27:53.359 food Boever soup never, So we never so we always 0:27:53.520 --> 0:27:56.760 we still have the brands. Yeah, so we know we 0:27:56.880 --> 0:27:59.480 never sold a brand. We sold. We sold the territory 0:27:59.560 --> 0:28:03.439 of China. Know in Japan, I think China and Korea 0:28:03.880 --> 0:28:09.360 that just the territory like that means we can't distribute those, 0:28:09.600 --> 0:28:13.800 just that those so they can make whatever they put 0:28:14.160 --> 0:28:17.760 that only that specific area and that area. Poolble was 0:28:17.880 --> 0:28:21.280 more like a skate type of brand. Oh god, they 0:28:21.320 --> 0:28:23.680 reinterpreted a different way over that. You you ever looking 0:28:23.680 --> 0:28:25.560 at that and be like you look at you know 0:28:25.640 --> 0:28:28.359 it probably see like where it goes and be like 0:28:28.520 --> 0:28:30.920 because essentially it's like it's like an album. It's like 0:28:31.280 --> 0:28:32.920 it's like how we make an album, like after we 0:28:33.000 --> 0:28:36.120 give it to the world, it's not ours. No thought 0:28:36.119 --> 0:28:39.640 we would be more than maybe a little closing store 0:28:39.680 --> 0:28:41.720 where well my friends and I, you know, we can 0:28:41.760 --> 0:28:44.280 all work together and feed out families. I never thought 0:28:44.320 --> 0:28:46.480 we have anything bigger than that. What was the moment 0:28:46.560 --> 0:28:51.320 where you was like, holy ship, we're here. Um. We 0:28:51.400 --> 0:28:53.160 had just opened a couple of store in South Africa. 0:28:53.400 --> 0:28:56.440 And I remember I didn't go on that trip in 0:28:56.480 --> 0:28:58.520 South Aba. I didn't go on that trip because I 0:28:58.560 --> 0:29:00.880 always saw at the first hit pop pop like yeah, 0:29:00.880 --> 0:29:03.520 we're done year three, we're done year four, and it 0:29:03.680 --> 0:29:06.160 lasted probably about eight years. Super hot, right, And I 0:29:06.240 --> 0:29:08.600 remember I didn't go on that trip. I had to 0:29:08.640 --> 0:29:14.240 do something else. And I remember Mandela calling my partners, Okay, y'all, 0:29:14.880 --> 0:29:20.080 y'all right. One of my only regrets. Man. You know, man, 0:29:21.160 --> 0:29:26.240 we can slow down there. You get the clubhouse, I'd 0:29:28.160 --> 0:29:35.720 all those Yeah, the real chair colongs with me bad 0:29:36.480 --> 0:29:40.520 bring so bad calls, called my boys and they're going 0:29:40.600 --> 0:29:43.520 me Mandela and I never got to meet him, um, 0:29:43.640 --> 0:29:48.080 but I realized at that point, yeah, we're making some noise. Wow. 0:29:49.040 --> 0:29:53.080 Did you ever get to be tupac Na? Damn me neither. 0:29:53.680 --> 0:29:57.440 When he got super hot, I was, I was East 0:29:57.480 --> 0:30:00.200 Coast dude. And the only time I almost it got 0:30:00.320 --> 0:30:03.320 to meet him. I forgot what happened, you know, we 0:30:03.400 --> 0:30:05.200 were throwing a big party on the West Coast and 0:30:05.240 --> 0:30:08.480 think for like Lenny slewis for somebody, and I was 0:30:08.560 --> 0:30:10.400 I was dressing, you know me, I was dressing everybody. 0:30:11.040 --> 0:30:12.800 But all of a sudden, you know, a lot of 0:30:12.840 --> 0:30:15.600 East Coast castle I forgot if it was Grammys or whatever, 0:30:16.480 --> 0:30:18.479 and I had to make a decision that I wouldn't 0:30:18.480 --> 0:30:25.040 allow um death row at the party. And just because 0:30:25.040 --> 0:30:27.040 we were dressing everybody, we didn't want the last we 0:30:27.160 --> 0:30:29.920 want the thing to be heard that something happened at 0:30:29.920 --> 0:30:31.600 the foodal party. And that was the only time that 0:30:32.440 --> 0:30:35.240 I don't want him. Did you Detroit from Pop thousand 0:30:35.240 --> 0:30:38.520 and one that work for footballs? No? No, no, not 0:30:38.800 --> 0:30:41.920 Troy no more. He Actually Troy did work for all 0:30:42.000 --> 0:30:44.120 of us in some sense, because when we would do 0:30:44.200 --> 0:30:46.280 these seventh or six fashion shows that we've never had 0:30:46.280 --> 0:30:48.479 an opportunity to do, we would need somebody to make 0:30:48.520 --> 0:30:51.560 the clothes in a week and just front like that 0:30:51.720 --> 0:30:54.120 was the new line coming out, and Troitan Potots the 0:30:54.160 --> 0:30:56.080 one wouldn't make all the clothes and we'd be like, yo, 0:30:56.160 --> 0:30:58.000 that's a new line, and then we'll see who we 0:30:58.080 --> 0:31:00.280 get press off of. And then we would run the line. 0:31:00.320 --> 0:31:02.840 We wouldn't actually be designing that line until we see 0:31:03.240 --> 0:31:05.160 how many times we get pressed off this one piece 0:31:05.200 --> 0:31:06.720 of that piece, and then we make like I said 0:31:06.760 --> 0:31:11.240 that capsules. It's like um with me, right, It's like 0:31:11.320 --> 0:31:14.000 I got kind of like two different life, right, I 0:31:14.080 --> 0:31:18.040 got the Wrapper life Love the Rapper life, and now 0:31:18.040 --> 0:31:23.440 I have this after Life after rap uh uh, this podcast. 0:31:23.520 --> 0:31:26.840 Like we're doing around and often people always ask me, 0:31:26.920 --> 0:31:29.680 like what what which one you like more? If you 0:31:29.800 --> 0:31:33.440 which one you like more, the shock Tank Life or 0:31:33.840 --> 0:31:37.880 the fool Boo Life Shock Tank Life. Okay, damn you 0:31:37.920 --> 0:31:43.240 said that, mad fast. You're gonna take some time, you know, 0:31:43.240 --> 0:31:45.040 because when when when food was really had, I had 0:31:45.080 --> 0:31:48.280 three hundred four hundred employees and then globally I had 0:31:48.280 --> 0:31:51.200 about twelve hundred. And I think it's supposed to make 0:31:51.200 --> 0:31:57.600 some noise for that. And when you become a shrink 0:31:59.040 --> 0:32:04.440 shrink opose Okay, okay, when you said you shrink, where 0:32:04.480 --> 0:32:09.080 we've come, fri you've been you've always you've always been 0:32:09.080 --> 0:32:11.120 concerned with why you didn't get to make it where 0:32:11.160 --> 0:32:15.760 you thought you deserve, whether because you were female, because 0:32:15.800 --> 0:32:20.600 you were personal color, because you didn't have a regular education. 0:32:21.680 --> 0:32:24.080 So I would go out and I would want my 0:32:24.200 --> 0:32:26.800 employees to know if I had to fire them, I 0:32:26.840 --> 0:32:28.120 had to fire them, or I had to give them 0:32:28.120 --> 0:32:29.600 an advance. To give my advance, but I wanted to 0:32:29.640 --> 0:32:30.760 know it was on the merit of who they were, 0:32:30.880 --> 0:32:33.200 not the color of their skin. And I never wanted 0:32:33.240 --> 0:32:36.800 to hand it down to other uh mental management, because 0:32:36.800 --> 0:32:40.479 you don't know how they were going to convey your message. 0:32:40.880 --> 0:32:42.600 So you become a shrink, right you you start to 0:32:42.680 --> 0:32:47.160 worry about why people are working or not working. Now, 0:32:47.480 --> 0:32:51.520 shark tank, I get to invest in other companies who 0:32:52.200 --> 0:32:54.640 they already were founded a year or two years, five 0:32:54.720 --> 0:32:58.120 years before they even met me. Ten years with those companies, right, 0:32:58.160 --> 0:33:01.520 I'm I'm a minority. Uh stay colder. I get to 0:33:01.640 --> 0:33:05.080 just work and deal with you off your performance and 0:33:05.240 --> 0:33:07.040 the DNA that you had already set for your company 0:33:07.080 --> 0:33:11.560 was none of my business. Also, I think that you 0:33:11.640 --> 0:33:15.200 know Sartank one of the top shows watched UM Kids 0:33:15.560 --> 0:33:18.360 and Parents Together, that's one of the top shows watched 0:33:18.440 --> 0:33:22.040 or network kids five to fifteen years old. And we 0:33:22.120 --> 0:33:26.440 don't often see people like us who are successful and 0:33:26.520 --> 0:33:30.200 they didn't have this great education and they didn't go 0:33:30.280 --> 0:33:32.800 out in the streets and do some crazy shit. And 0:33:32.880 --> 0:33:34.680 if I can, if I can let it. If the 0:33:34.800 --> 0:33:37.360 next Damon John, excuse me, and not even Damon John 0:33:37.400 --> 0:33:40.200 sque me if the next Oprah was Steve Jobs or 0:33:40.600 --> 0:33:43.720 Bill Gates is in their house and their little pajamas, 0:33:44.160 --> 0:33:47.280 eating some cheerios, watching me on TV. Like I did 0:33:47.360 --> 0:33:50.720 my job, right, So I think that that. And I 0:33:50.760 --> 0:33:52.680 don't have any inventory. Before I used to worry about 0:33:52.680 --> 0:33:55.400 moving a million pairs of jeans. Now my inventories right 0:33:55.440 --> 0:33:57.960 here and right here, all right here, that's my inventory. 0:33:58.320 --> 0:34:00.680 And um, you're in the food come putting right now 0:34:00.840 --> 0:34:04.920 right food company, al Baba Bagas Bonus rips. That got that? 0:34:05.880 --> 0:34:12.640 That's a time twister. You try that after three more? Well? 0:34:13.680 --> 0:34:17.480 So was it ever like an investment? You can't brush 0:34:17.560 --> 0:34:19.840 over it? Like the beginning of Shark Tank, Like I 0:34:19.920 --> 0:34:21.839 want to know, Yeah, did that whole this show even 0:34:21.880 --> 0:34:25.000 start like it was? Mark Cupids? Are there? No? No? Not? 0:34:25.160 --> 0:34:28.960 Mark Burnett produced like he had he has survival practice 0:34:29.000 --> 0:34:31.160 all that, And it was already a number one show 0:34:31.320 --> 0:34:35.000 in Japan, in London and Canada. It's called dragons Den 0:34:35.719 --> 0:34:37.520 and they and they brought the format over here. It's 0:34:37.520 --> 0:34:40.160 a Sony format. They brought it over there. Mark is 0:34:40.200 --> 0:34:42.920 a brick so he loved it already from London, and 0:34:43.040 --> 0:34:45.439 then he brought the show here and renamed the Shark 0:34:45.480 --> 0:34:48.040 Tank because I think they had it in another country, 0:34:48.080 --> 0:34:50.799 I think Australia. At first they had it under dragons Den, 0:34:51.160 --> 0:34:52.600 and the way knew what the hell of dragon was 0:34:52.680 --> 0:34:53.920 in that country, And if you would have brought it 0:34:54.000 --> 0:34:56.399 here named the dragons then it was already hard enough. 0:34:56.400 --> 0:35:01.239 The name of Shark taking exactly show. So absolutely, that's 0:35:01.239 --> 0:35:02.560 how I started. They called me if they saw me, 0:35:02.640 --> 0:35:07.080 I think on Donnie Deutsch or CNBC or MSNBC talking 0:35:07.120 --> 0:35:09.120 about business, and they're like, yo, you know this guy 0:35:09.239 --> 0:35:11.200 knows how to break down the pitch. He has a 0:35:11.239 --> 0:35:14.000 couple of bucks, he's an investor. I want him on 0:35:14.040 --> 0:35:17.399 the show again, something else like Booble that I thought 0:35:17.440 --> 0:35:23.840 would never work. So they approach you with this idea, 0:35:24.200 --> 0:35:25.800 now that you gotta shoot the pilot first, or you 0:35:25.880 --> 0:35:27.480 guys go straight into the season. Now we go to 0:35:27.480 --> 0:35:30.200 shoot the pilot. But first they tell me I can't 0:35:30.200 --> 0:35:31.760 be on any of the show. And I already promised 0:35:31.760 --> 0:35:34.239 the Kardashians I'd be on the show. So I told him, no, 0:35:34.280 --> 0:35:37.520 I wouldn't do it, and then I get uh. Then 0:35:37.520 --> 0:35:39.680 all of a sudden, the produce of the Kardashians like, yeah, 0:35:39.680 --> 0:35:41.120 we don't want you to show them more. You don't 0:35:41.120 --> 0:35:43.879 really appeal to the people, you know that we're trying 0:35:43.880 --> 0:35:47.680 to get the hell out of. So you get cut 0:35:47.719 --> 0:35:50.440 out of the Kardashians. However, you know what I found out, 0:35:50.880 --> 0:35:53.400 Chloe found out that I was going to turn down 0:35:53.440 --> 0:35:55.880 Shark because of her ah and then she says she 0:35:55.880 --> 0:35:58.640 would never get in my way. Let's make some noise 0:35:58.680 --> 0:36:02.399 for Chloe got I think that's noise and at all. 0:36:03.400 --> 0:36:10.960 Two three A sweet story. Man. I'm glad to hear 0:36:11.200 --> 0:36:13.759 to hear a person like you of your statures come 0:36:13.800 --> 0:36:20.120 on here and speak, you know, uh, positivity towards that way, 0:36:20.120 --> 0:36:23.239 because it's I just don't hear it. I don't know 0:36:23.280 --> 0:36:25.960 what I'm me listening. They're screwed up people out here, 0:36:26.000 --> 0:36:27.799 and they you know, there's a lot of foul people 0:36:27.840 --> 0:36:30.719 out here, but you got to give it up when 0:36:30.760 --> 0:36:33.400 you know somebody's doing it the right way, you know, 0:36:33.560 --> 0:36:37.600 and Christiana doing the right way. And I ain't mad 0:36:37.600 --> 0:36:39.600 at them. You know, they're getting their paper and why 0:36:39.640 --> 0:36:41.719 while we getting mad at them? Right exactly. You have 0:36:41.800 --> 0:36:44.480 opinion on Kanye and like sometimes his thoughts being out 0:36:44.520 --> 0:36:48.319 of this world, you know, not really, Um, I think 0:36:48.400 --> 0:36:51.080 that you know he I think he's already said everything 0:36:51.160 --> 0:36:53.520 he needs to say about himself by emotionally he goes Shuler. 0:36:54.239 --> 0:36:56.120 I think the man is a genius. Um. I think 0:36:56.160 --> 0:36:57.920 has he said some wrong stuff that I've been offended? 0:36:57.960 --> 0:37:03.000 That absolutely? But you know what if the cameras were 0:37:03.040 --> 0:37:05.520 on me all the time, of course I said some 0:37:05.560 --> 0:37:07.840 wrong stuff too, right, But but I'm not one of 0:37:07.840 --> 0:37:10.200 the biggest stars in the world. You know what I'm saying. 0:37:11.160 --> 0:37:17.839 So you got a motivation, you know album coming up? 0:37:18.080 --> 0:37:20.160 I got a motivation the track I got someone like 0:37:20.200 --> 0:37:22.680 spoken Wren. I do a couple of speeches or people scorting. 0:37:22.760 --> 0:37:25.640 I'm not gonna insult true artists or somebody that's you. 0:37:26.280 --> 0:37:27.880 I mean, I'm doing my speech because you know what 0:37:28.080 --> 0:37:29.839 I think. I think a lot of times when I'm 0:37:29.880 --> 0:37:31.560 when I'm doing the tracks, like when I want to 0:37:31.600 --> 0:37:33.560 do these speaking engagements. If you hear it once, you've 0:37:33.560 --> 0:37:36.239 heard a million times to me. But I remember I 0:37:36.320 --> 0:37:38.880 was driving down the street one day of mlk's birthday, 0:37:38.880 --> 0:37:40.680 and I heard obviously one of the greatest speeches that 0:37:40.680 --> 0:37:43.400 I ever been written. Somebody did some crazy beat to it, 0:37:43.440 --> 0:37:45.680 and I was like, I can hear that Mark Luther 0:37:45.800 --> 0:37:49.040 King's speech on the treadmill train. I'm driving the car. 0:37:49.360 --> 0:37:52.200 It's getting me amp you want to kill it? That day, 0:37:52.600 --> 0:37:55.480 so I gave a bunch of producers a lot of 0:37:55.560 --> 0:37:58.920 my speeches and it's obviously never gonna compare to m okay, 0:37:59.000 --> 0:38:01.839 but um, they put some stuff together and just started 0:38:01.880 --> 0:38:04.080 getting good responses and people like and I give them 0:38:04.080 --> 0:38:06.960 away with my books or you know, the people people perchasing, 0:38:07.040 --> 0:38:09.759 whatever the cases. But I always wanted to add more 0:38:10.520 --> 0:38:14.000 than just my books. You know that Obama appointed you 0:38:14.120 --> 0:38:19.560 the brand ambassador. Yeah, Obama appointed me um Presidential Ambassador 0:38:19.840 --> 0:38:22.719 Global Entrepreneurship. Okay, but how did this happen? They did 0:38:23.200 --> 0:38:24.920 he call your phone? And did you hang up when 0:38:24.960 --> 0:38:28.200 you say it's Obama? Because you like, come on, I 0:38:28.239 --> 0:38:32.560 would like I wish I could play a big time 0:38:32.640 --> 0:38:36.040 like that. It was his band's man, Man's Man? Who 0:38:36.080 --> 0:38:42.279 are me? I was removed? What you what you're damn? 0:38:42.360 --> 0:38:44.280 But I did get to go with him to Kenya. 0:38:44.280 --> 0:38:46.360 I want him to Cuba, I want with him to 0:38:46.480 --> 0:38:51.239 another conference. Um and yeah, in in California. And my 0:38:51.360 --> 0:38:55.480 job as a presidential abassador is to let people understand 0:38:55.520 --> 0:38:57.080 and they can pick up their iPhone and make a 0:38:57.120 --> 0:38:59.359 million dollars or or if you're in Kenya, you need 0:38:59.400 --> 0:39:01.200 only twenty five dollars a month to keep the lights on. 0:39:02.120 --> 0:39:05.719 If if we can show you what entrepreneurship is and 0:39:05.760 --> 0:39:08.279 how to how to do it, then domestic violence is 0:39:08.280 --> 0:39:10.719 going to go down. Right if you need twenty five 0:39:10.840 --> 0:39:12.960 dollars a month, Like if your wife keeps telling you, listen, 0:39:13.000 --> 0:39:14.600 I need money to take care of the baby, to 0:39:14.640 --> 0:39:16.680 take whatever case, and you and you stress you ain't 0:39:16.680 --> 0:39:19.279 got it, a lot of things gonna happen. And then 0:39:19.320 --> 0:39:21.839 also the people are gonna pray of for you. They're 0:39:21.840 --> 0:39:24.200 gonna be like yo, just like they do whether it's 0:39:24.239 --> 0:39:26.280 in the gang in New York City or in California. 0:39:26.320 --> 0:39:29.520 It's like, Yo, you need some money, take this and 0:39:29.600 --> 0:39:31.719 go down the block and do this for me. They're 0:39:31.719 --> 0:39:33.920 gonna do that too to other people. Right. So, but 0:39:34.040 --> 0:39:36.759 if you show people there's real ways to make money, 0:39:36.840 --> 0:39:40.360 then they don't become liabilities, they become taxpayers. They become 0:39:40.520 --> 0:39:43.279 mentors in the community. We see it happen all the time. 0:39:43.320 --> 0:39:46.000 So that was my job globally to to to do 0:39:46.080 --> 0:39:49.080 that for the president bottom and so you you you, 0:39:49.200 --> 0:39:52.640 but you got to be them. Yeah yeah, traveling, traveling, 0:39:53.080 --> 0:39:59.560 getting smoking blog with them like no, no, no, But 0:39:59.640 --> 0:40:02.160 now you know, random bastard of Spotify to how are 0:40:02.160 --> 0:40:06.000 you getting music money as well? Spotify? Yeah that's Shopify, 0:40:06.520 --> 0:40:16.600 shop by that Spotify, oh ship. Yeah, definitely I wrote 0:40:16.640 --> 0:40:19.799 it wrong. I was like, you know all the music 0:40:19.920 --> 0:40:24.520 nig Yeah, you know, I used old mistakes to president 0:40:24.600 --> 0:40:27.520 like yo, yo, you know what Shopify the platform, anybody 0:40:27.560 --> 0:40:29.320 had to have something when they're trying to sell something 0:40:30.040 --> 0:40:33.120 that's that's like the on store Shopify they can open up, Yeah, 0:40:33.239 --> 0:40:36.480 shopping for Holy ship, you are just getting money from everywhere? 0:40:36.719 --> 0:40:41.480 Do you like? Um? How how because they say a 0:40:41.680 --> 0:40:46.560 millionaire has to have seven uh forms? Is that something 0:40:46.600 --> 0:40:50.520 you agree with? Yeah? I mean I do. I don't 0:40:50.560 --> 0:40:53.560 know a counter like what's the seven? I always say, 0:40:54.120 --> 0:40:58.960 how are we maximizing what we're currently doing here? You know? So? Um, 0:41:00.239 --> 0:41:02.480 give example, like if the books are doing really well, 0:41:03.360 --> 0:41:05.359 then I'm gonna come out with the curriculum to follow 0:41:05.400 --> 0:41:07.480 us up with the books that I'm also put the 0:41:07.560 --> 0:41:10.480 tracks to follow up with the books. I'm gonna do 0:41:10.760 --> 0:41:13.279 hopefully some kind of dock or show off of it, 0:41:14.000 --> 0:41:15.920 and then you know, I may do one all the 0:41:16.400 --> 0:41:18.640 or all the two things off of it, but we're 0:41:18.640 --> 0:41:21.640 gonna try to maximize. You know, this is open that 0:41:21.880 --> 0:41:24.319 that brand I was trying to say, But don't don't 0:41:24.320 --> 0:41:29.040 forget we have some future entrepreneurs. It takes you're wanting, 0:41:29.080 --> 0:41:31.160 no problem. They both white, they both fights. Got damn 0:41:31.200 --> 0:41:34.799 it because we all celebrate whatever that was. Yeah, yeah, 0:41:34.840 --> 0:41:36.759 that's the brand new one. Go ahead, dad, god damnit 0:41:36.800 --> 0:41:41.040 me your wait, hold on, hold on hard okay, okay, 0:41:41.080 --> 0:41:43.000 hold on, hor because I'm gonna do it more a 0:41:43.160 --> 0:41:45.920 real one. This is a real This is a real one. 0:41:48.520 --> 0:41:52.600 I don't believe in these nicks at all. They're gonna 0:41:52.600 --> 0:41:54.640 embarrass the whole attack of you on this show right now. 0:41:55.280 --> 0:41:58.239 And we all know this. This is a real one 0:41:58.320 --> 0:42:04.520 right now now, now listen, please, this is something that 0:42:04.600 --> 0:42:07.680 I've been working on personally. Right I didn't want to 0:42:07.680 --> 0:42:09.719 go to anybody for help because I just wanted to 0:42:09.760 --> 0:42:11.759 do it on own, just like like a record there, 0:42:12.160 --> 0:42:16.200 so you got it. So what I proposed this this 0:42:16.840 --> 0:42:19.120 I wanted to come out with my own sneaker line right, 0:42:19.520 --> 0:42:22.880 my own, my very own, that's my prototype, that's my 0:42:23.080 --> 0:42:28.440 very own. These are called the Hamptons because this is 0:42:28.480 --> 0:42:31.719 what you now. It's not gonna be black, It's gonna 0:42:31.800 --> 0:42:34.200 be white because in Hamptons, you know, the Hamptons. That's 0:42:34.520 --> 0:42:37.520 version of mallible. Right. So, but it doesn't stop here. 0:42:37.680 --> 0:42:40.200 This is obviously a no repair of sneakers. But I 0:42:40.239 --> 0:42:41.800 want to be like the first company. I want to 0:42:41.880 --> 0:42:44.920 be Nike, meaning I want to give I want to 0:42:44.960 --> 0:42:47.719 give everybody who's not gonna give people a deal, but 0:42:47.800 --> 0:42:52.239 who has hundreds of thousands of fans, um like like 0:42:52.440 --> 0:42:55.040 like a Jim Jones. I don't see Jim Jones ever 0:42:55.080 --> 0:42:57.440 be and it will be in a Nike being or 0:42:57.520 --> 0:42:59.839 with new Balance. But guess what what if I give 0:43:00.040 --> 0:43:03.279 him Jones his own sneakers under my brand? Yeah? I 0:43:03.400 --> 0:43:05.360 like it, you know what I'm saying? Like label deals 0:43:05.360 --> 0:43:09.320 in a sense, ye, like I would imprint imprint, Like 0:43:09.520 --> 0:43:13.800 do you think that could exist in this day in time? Absolutely? Absolutely? 0:43:13.840 --> 0:43:16.200 But you know the question is gonna be you know, 0:43:16.400 --> 0:43:18.080 how how are you going to do that? Right, like, 0:43:18.120 --> 0:43:19.839 how are you going to set up the supply chain? 0:43:20.680 --> 0:43:24.520 And who's gonna fund that supply chain? Okay, because you 0:43:24.560 --> 0:43:26.160 look at it today. If you look at the sneaker, 0:43:26.640 --> 0:43:28.920 you know, sneakers on like they're not like T shirts 0:43:30.000 --> 0:43:32.320 a T shirt. We can we can all put You 0:43:32.600 --> 0:43:34.640 can put obviously something on the T shirt and it 0:43:34.960 --> 0:43:37.080 really means a lot to people because they follow you 0:43:37.160 --> 0:43:42.080 put two parts there. You go, right, you can make 0:43:42.160 --> 0:43:45.040 that T shirt in two days. You can go print 0:43:45.080 --> 0:43:48.680 it and ship it over to you that you can't 0:43:49.160 --> 0:43:52.520 that's gonna take ninety days. You don't know if you 0:43:52.520 --> 0:43:54.920 can customize it. And then your inventory is gonna be 0:43:54.960 --> 0:43:57.560 massive because how many eights, eight and a half nines 0:43:57.960 --> 0:44:00.719 against colors. So now you gotta look at how much 0:44:00.800 --> 0:44:03.200 inventory you're gonna have to have, and that can suck 0:44:03.280 --> 0:44:05.239 up a lot of cash because the more inventory you have, 0:44:06.080 --> 0:44:10.160 the more you gotta pay for warehousing and quality control. 0:44:10.719 --> 0:44:12.440 And if you put out this, because we all know 0:44:12.480 --> 0:44:15.880 the sneak crowd, if this sneaker is hot for ninety 0:44:15.960 --> 0:44:19.600 days or one season and it is cold, now, if 0:44:19.640 --> 0:44:23.359 you paid whatever three dollars a unit and you've got 0:44:23.440 --> 0:44:26.080 three million dollars worth of units in your warehouse. If 0:44:26.160 --> 0:44:28.640 it don't become a collector's item, then when you go 0:44:28.760 --> 0:44:30.520 and try to sell them, people are gonna pay the 0:44:30.560 --> 0:44:32.399 normal price to pay for They're gonna pay half the price. 0:44:33.000 --> 0:44:35.719 So you just gotta really set up the supply chain 0:44:36.040 --> 0:44:38.400 in the right way where you can deliver it faster 0:44:38.560 --> 0:44:42.080 to people at a time. Like my idea was, instead 0:44:42.120 --> 0:44:43.839 of me coming out with one, I wanted to come 0:44:43.840 --> 0:44:45.239 out with three at a time. I wanted to come 0:44:45.239 --> 0:44:48.120 out with the nor like a Jim Jones and a 0:44:48.160 --> 0:44:51.200 bad Joe. Right, So this way, so this way, I 0:44:51.360 --> 0:44:53.239 COO are putting all the revenue into it. I'm I'm 0:44:53.280 --> 0:44:56.640 playing for everything, but no one knows. It's all under 0:44:56.680 --> 0:44:58.760 one company. But no one knows who owns this company 0:44:58.840 --> 0:45:01.239 or whatever the company is. But I got got Joe 0:45:01.360 --> 0:45:04.800 out on the Bronx promoting, I got Jim Jones in Miami, 0:45:04.840 --> 0:45:06.279 and I'm in l A or something like that. So 0:45:06.440 --> 0:45:07.960 so the flip side of the best way to do 0:45:08.120 --> 0:45:10.440 that because you have such a great relationship with them, 0:45:10.480 --> 0:45:12.400 and they have such a great relationship with their audience. 0:45:12.960 --> 0:45:15.160 It's it's a pre order situation exactly. That's what I 0:45:15.239 --> 0:45:17.279 was thinking, You guys, so don't even don't even make 0:45:17.320 --> 0:45:19.480 the product until we get that order. Don't make it 0:45:19.560 --> 0:45:21.399 until but but you have to have a customer who's 0:45:21.440 --> 0:45:27.080 ready to wait for Yeah, we're only were rocking out 0:45:27.200 --> 0:45:31.880 with five thousands. If it goes round when you're not 0:45:31.920 --> 0:45:34.880 gonna have a loss because you know now you just 0:45:34.920 --> 0:45:37.400 gotta be reduction is good because you already got a 0:45:37.480 --> 0:45:43.640 dance on pre selling right now now, he was It was, uh, 0:45:44.120 --> 0:45:46.080 this is all serious, Like I'm not even none of 0:45:46.160 --> 0:45:49.680 this was I was like playing around with But one 0:45:49.719 --> 0:45:51.600 of the things I was going, I'm actually going to 0:45:51.840 --> 0:45:55.000 l A this Wednesday, is I got this all done 0:45:55.040 --> 0:45:56.680 in China, right And I had to go to China 0:45:56.680 --> 0:45:58.560 because I didn't know no other wound and I didn't 0:45:58.600 --> 0:45:59.920 want to know health to tell the truth, I just 0:46:00.280 --> 0:46:02.319 I wanted to do something hundred percent on my own, 0:46:02.480 --> 0:46:04.640 like like for real, and rad Alan helped me, you 0:46:04.680 --> 0:46:05.920 know what I'm saying, But nope, we're not with no 0:46:06.000 --> 0:46:09.120 money though everything was on me. So what I thought 0:46:09.120 --> 0:46:13.080 about it was I had running can ye and I'm 0:46:13.080 --> 0:46:15.560 supposed to meet with Kanye this week, and I think 0:46:15.600 --> 0:46:18.040 he thinks I'm going to meet with him for drink chaps. 0:46:18.400 --> 0:46:19.719 But one of the things that I want to meet 0:46:19.760 --> 0:46:21.839 with him as for Yo, listen, I want to pay 0:46:21.840 --> 0:46:24.120 you the same ship I was gonna pay China to 0:46:24.239 --> 0:46:25.839 make my sneaker. I just want to make it here. 0:46:26.080 --> 0:46:30.000 Would would that make a difference if it's American made 0:46:30.040 --> 0:46:32.640 and then it's made in Calabasas or some ship as 0:46:32.680 --> 0:46:37.080 opposed to China. Yeah, it is, but the pricing may 0:46:37.120 --> 0:46:39.560 be different because we don't even know if they have 0:46:40.480 --> 0:46:43.680 too main factories set up here to make to make footwear. 0:46:44.080 --> 0:46:46.400 You know, technology sometimes been in those areas, or you 0:46:46.440 --> 0:46:48.759 can get components made. You can say I'm gonna make 0:46:48.840 --> 0:46:51.439 the soul over there, and you know, make the upper 0:46:51.480 --> 0:46:53.879 over here. You know what you know when you want 0:46:53.920 --> 0:46:56.560 to really make those sneakers, you know, like those they 0:46:56.800 --> 0:46:58.600 they're like car builders who make those thnaks like we 0:46:58.680 --> 0:47:00.799 own the Brandy Tonic and to take a long time 0:47:01.280 --> 0:47:06.160 to make apparent sneakers. Yeah, okay, wow, okay, I didn't 0:47:06.160 --> 0:47:09.239 know what t is still out Yeah I still wanted 0:47:09.239 --> 0:47:13.479 about six years ago. Okay, okay, god you know money 0:47:13.520 --> 0:47:17.200 tic Oh no, I do, I do, actually, but I 0:47:17.280 --> 0:47:21.719 do so now shock take right, they come to you 0:47:21.800 --> 0:47:27.799 with this idea, and I imagine one of the things 0:47:27.920 --> 0:47:29.719 that could have been a turn off at first as 0:47:29.760 --> 0:47:32.640 they're saying, you invest into your own money? Do you 0:47:33.040 --> 0:47:36.279 all day? Because you have to say, that's what I 0:47:36.719 --> 0:47:38.480 want to understand. It doesn't make sense to me the 0:47:38.600 --> 0:47:41.600 financials of that. How does that work? Like there's no 0:47:41.800 --> 0:47:46.279 match processing it and products nothing. If if they will, 0:47:46.440 --> 0:47:49.080 maybe if I would spending ABC money, everybody in this 0:47:49.200 --> 0:47:57.799 room have a deal because the show, I'm thinking maybe 0:47:57.840 --> 0:48:02.200 it's a match situation. You know, mad nothing right, So 0:48:02.400 --> 0:48:08.680 this is a one of them. Then when this is 0:48:08.719 --> 0:48:10.839 what I'm asking you. So when they approach you, they 0:48:10.880 --> 0:48:13.160 say we're gonna make a show and you're using your 0:48:13.200 --> 0:48:15.800 own money, Like and I thought these dudes was crazy, 0:48:17.600 --> 0:48:20.480 but it was. It was oh eight when they approached me. 0:48:21.719 --> 0:48:24.520 I had ten brands and eight of my brands with 0:48:24.640 --> 0:48:27.080 dead and nobody. When people in old eight couldn't pay 0:48:27.120 --> 0:48:29.319 their morgan, the last thing they were doing was buying 0:48:29.360 --> 0:48:31.600 a new T shirt or sneakers or jeans. They were 0:48:31.640 --> 0:48:34.759 their jeans forever. And I was like, yo, I'm only 0:48:34.800 --> 0:48:37.600 getting pitched or the cloning companies because you know when 0:48:37.640 --> 0:48:39.400 people think who we just thought that they think you 0:48:39.480 --> 0:48:41.480 know nothing else. And I was like, but yo, the 0:48:41.600 --> 0:48:45.400 skill set that I have is not making clothes. The 0:48:45.480 --> 0:48:48.000 skills that I have is selling products. So I want 0:48:48.000 --> 0:48:50.440 to be able to go to a department store and say, yo, 0:48:50.520 --> 0:48:52.560 you know me already. You know I'm in the men's section. 0:48:53.040 --> 0:48:54.799 But I got some lotions that I can say can 0:48:54.920 --> 0:48:57.120 take some real estate up in the lotion area and 0:48:57.200 --> 0:48:59.600 the bedding in the kitchen area. So I said, I'm 0:48:59.600 --> 0:49:02.440 gonna be a diversify my portfolio, So let me go 0:49:02.560 --> 0:49:04.360 on the show. And that was the main reason I 0:49:04.440 --> 0:49:08.120 did the show. Are the are the different people that pitch? 0:49:08.719 --> 0:49:11.200 Is there a vetting system that make sure that you 0:49:11.239 --> 0:49:15.040 know they're just they're just not full of ship completely there? Yeah? So, 0:49:15.200 --> 0:49:17.360 but the betting system has changed, right, you know, Like, um, so, 0:49:17.440 --> 0:49:19.879 I think there's forty thou applicants online for the show. 0:49:20.040 --> 0:49:22.480 I think that they end them narrowing it down to 0:49:22.560 --> 0:49:25.000 a thousand. They see they're seeing me in outside castings, 0:49:25.080 --> 0:49:27.160 or we don't know anything about them, or they'll they'll 0:49:27.239 --> 0:49:29.080 they'll they'll see him on the news, like you know, 0:49:29.080 --> 0:49:32.200 a little Timmy gonna lemonade and stand you know whatever, um, 0:49:33.640 --> 0:49:35.360 and then then they'll bring us one and we'll finally 0:49:35.360 --> 0:49:37.400 see two hundred people, and only I think a hundred 0:49:37.440 --> 0:49:41.319 will air. And but the vetting process has changed over 0:49:41.360 --> 0:49:43.360 the years. The sharks have gotten smarter and the casting 0:49:43.440 --> 0:49:45.960 directors gotten smarter. It's like, we do a production in 0:49:46.040 --> 0:49:47.960 here right now, right there's a lot of smart people 0:49:48.000 --> 0:49:51.160 in here who can walk me around the block ten 0:49:51.280 --> 0:49:54.720 times when I'm talking about angles, cameras and equipment. However, 0:49:55.120 --> 0:49:57.360 the first season, when cast is talking to us and 0:49:57.360 --> 0:50:00.360 they were like, yo, doing about thirty million dollars sales, 0:50:00.400 --> 0:50:03.800 and I got one employee the casting director was a 0:50:03.880 --> 0:50:07.000 casting director. They didn't know to ask the question like, Yo, 0:50:07.040 --> 0:50:12.480 what are you selling crack? You got hot right now? 0:50:13.360 --> 0:50:16.400 You know what I'm saying. Like, but after seeing all 0:50:16.480 --> 0:50:18.839 these pictures, just like America has gotten smart and find 0:50:18.880 --> 0:50:21.880 out what the word royalties is in marginal retribution, the 0:50:22.040 --> 0:50:24.880 casting directors have to seeing hundreds of pitches. Now you 0:50:24.960 --> 0:50:27.600 go to them, they sound like me, Kevin Olire, you know, 0:50:27.680 --> 0:50:29.759 They're like, yeah, come on, man, you know what I'm saying. 0:50:29.760 --> 0:50:33.400 So um so, so that's the real deal. And the 0:50:33.440 --> 0:50:37.640 show you see eight minutes of a two hour pitch. Yeah, 0:50:37.719 --> 0:50:40.000 there's two the pictures two hours, and it takes us 0:50:40.000 --> 0:50:42.160 anywhere from six to nine months to close the deals. 0:50:42.680 --> 0:50:46.440 And we and we and we generally close about eight 0:50:46.880 --> 0:50:50.920 of the deals. You see us, do mhm? Have have 0:50:51.239 --> 0:50:56.640 um passed on something that it was like fuck? You 0:50:56.719 --> 0:51:00.439 know what? At first couple of years I I thought 0:51:00.480 --> 0:51:06.120 like that right? And then I'll tell you what happened, Laurie. 0:51:06.920 --> 0:51:10.319 This guy walks in, falls on the ground as part 0:51:10.320 --> 0:51:12.919 of the skid. He gets up. He has his little 0:51:13.000 --> 0:51:17.520 pin that he puts his glasses in it, and he says, 0:51:17.719 --> 0:51:20.120 I got this pen ten dollars. You put your glasses 0:51:20.160 --> 0:51:21.880 in it, and you can put it on all your shirts. 0:51:22.719 --> 0:51:26.280 I was like, it's garbage because I've been putting cold 0:51:26.400 --> 0:51:29.040 on my shirts. There Tommy Hill doing that, I mean 0:51:29.239 --> 0:51:31.520 Tommy like a Tommy Bahama. I'm like, yeah, I don't know, 0:51:31.520 --> 0:51:35.320 we're gonna work. Laurie goes off and there's a seven 0:51:35.400 --> 0:51:40.480 million dollars in sales and that stupid ass pen. You 0:51:40.520 --> 0:51:44.279 know what, I realized She've been selling reading glasses for 0:51:44.480 --> 0:51:48.920 fifteen years on her show. She has millions of people 0:51:49.160 --> 0:51:53.239 that mess with her because they're reading glasses and that's 0:51:53.280 --> 0:51:57.160 who she sold it too. So I realized that chasing 0:51:57.239 --> 0:51:58.880 money like that is like back in the days when 0:51:58.920 --> 0:52:01.360 I was trying to chase that car game. If I 0:52:01.400 --> 0:52:04.400 don't have the customer, I don't know the business, how 0:52:04.440 --> 0:52:06.640 do I know if it's gonna sell. And that's why 0:52:06.680 --> 0:52:09.600 I'm doing really good and baby back ribs because I 0:52:09.760 --> 0:52:14.840 know baby back right. Is there anything that you invested 0:52:14.880 --> 0:52:20.919 in that that you personally believed in that it didn't work? Yeah, 0:52:21.000 --> 0:52:23.520 every every single thing that has failed. Oh wow. But 0:52:23.640 --> 0:52:25.920 I just generally I don't talk about the entrepreneur wire's 0:52:25.920 --> 0:52:27.759 failed because a lot of times the entrepreneurs are going 0:52:27.800 --> 0:52:31.040 to a different stage, like, um, it may not be 0:52:31.160 --> 0:52:33.160 working right now, and then two or three years later 0:52:33.239 --> 0:52:36.959 may pop. But I've learned I was behind the camera 0:52:37.040 --> 0:52:40.239 with food for the most part. I learned that if 0:52:40.280 --> 0:52:43.440 I go out and say, well, yo, this entrepreneurs sucked 0:52:43.440 --> 0:52:47.000 and this company sucked, that person may not get an 0:52:47.000 --> 0:52:49.520 investment or a job later on for various different reasons. 0:52:49.520 --> 0:52:52.680 Because my, my, my, my words bring them up to 0:52:52.719 --> 0:52:57.400 the top of the search. So um, and most of 0:52:57.480 --> 0:53:00.640 the time, entrepreneurs who have done more own by us. 0:53:00.840 --> 0:53:03.920 They don't have that intent. They just don't have enough 0:53:04.000 --> 0:53:05.840 knowledge and they go out there and do wrong things, 0:53:06.000 --> 0:53:07.880 you know, because some of them think, listen, I got it, 0:53:07.880 --> 0:53:09.080 and it didn't happen to me, but it happened to 0:53:09.080 --> 0:53:10.840 one of my guys. They I think he said he 0:53:10.880 --> 0:53:12.880 invested five hundred thousand dollars. A woman went off and 0:53:13.320 --> 0:53:17.040 paid off all her bills and brought herself in you call. Now. 0:53:17.440 --> 0:53:19.839 She didn't intend to steal, but her theory was, listen, 0:53:19.880 --> 0:53:23.440 I'm paying interest in all these bills. Well it's credit. 0:53:23.640 --> 0:53:25.839 Let me pay that down and I'm gonna get around 0:53:25.880 --> 0:53:28.239 this old piece of ship car. I got wow. But 0:53:28.360 --> 0:53:30.320 the theory was the wrong thing to do for the business, 0:53:30.440 --> 0:53:33.800 of course. So you know, it's pretty hard when you 0:53:33.880 --> 0:53:35.600 when you when you when you're in business dealing with 0:53:35.680 --> 0:53:39.719 a lot of different personalities, egos. You know, is it 0:53:39.800 --> 0:53:42.160 every anything that you ever like invested in that you 0:53:42.280 --> 0:53:45.360 didn't believe in personally? Like you said, like I I 0:53:45.719 --> 0:53:48.200 but I can see the other people that were funk 0:53:48.280 --> 0:53:50.719 with this, like like like, for instance, if I was 0:53:50.800 --> 0:53:53.400 an investor, like I give you a better example. I 0:53:53.480 --> 0:53:55.759 know for a fact, lies don't eat pork. But if 0:53:55.800 --> 0:53:58.719 you go to his restaurant, sweet check. There's a lot 0:53:58.800 --> 0:54:01.719 of pork or that man, So you know what I'm saying, Like, 0:54:01.800 --> 0:54:03.880 it's like he don't believe in that part of it, 0:54:03.960 --> 0:54:07.480 but he um is there something like that. Yeah, there's 0:54:07.480 --> 0:54:10.920 two guys. They have a company called Bomba's Socks, And 0:54:13.200 --> 0:54:16.640 I like the guys personally, but the socks is trash. 0:54:16.960 --> 0:54:19.120 But the socks I was like, know, the socks themselves 0:54:19.120 --> 0:54:22.400 are good, but I was like, yo, I got a 0:54:22.480 --> 0:54:24.760 million dollars worth the old football socks in the warehouse. 0:54:25.480 --> 0:54:28.000 You wear them, nobody can tell what you're wearing because 0:54:28.160 --> 0:54:31.000 it's on your feet. They in buckets at five dollars 0:54:31.040 --> 0:54:33.560 a piece at the store. This ship is never gonna 0:54:33.600 --> 0:54:37.560 work exactly. They're doing a hundred million dollars a year 0:54:37.640 --> 0:54:41.800 now a year and direct sales to the to the 0:54:41.960 --> 0:54:44.880 to the customer. And the best thing about him is 0:54:44.920 --> 0:54:47.000 that the most comfortable socks I've ever won. But every 0:54:47.040 --> 0:54:49.279 time you buy a pair of socks, they donate a 0:54:49.320 --> 0:54:51.239 pair to the homeless shelter because that's one of the 0:54:51.239 --> 0:54:55.800 biggest challenges the homers have or complaints they have, and 0:54:56.160 --> 0:54:58.960 they've proven then you can take anything in the world 0:54:59.560 --> 0:55:01.000 and if you do with the right way, listen and 0:55:01.040 --> 0:55:02.319 the end of the day, I should have known better. 0:55:02.360 --> 0:55:03.719 I just made a T shirt. I didn't put three 0:55:03.719 --> 0:55:06.239 sleeves on the T shirt. They made a suck. One 0:55:06.239 --> 0:55:07.960 of the biggest company in the world today is something 0:55:08.040 --> 0:55:11.640 that sells a sugary, sugary bubbly water. It ain't another 0:55:11.719 --> 0:55:14.480 heart vowel they're selling. Simplicity is some of the best 0:55:14.520 --> 0:55:16.319 things ever to sell people to. All these people are 0:55:16.320 --> 0:55:19.120 here trying to create, you know this next heart vow 0:55:19.920 --> 0:55:22.560 Sometimes they should think about the simplistic things that everybody 0:55:22.600 --> 0:55:25.360 can require every single day. We want to try to 0:55:25.360 --> 0:55:26.719 do a tack of bone. But I want to I 0:55:26.760 --> 0:55:33.640 got another question. I want to hear what's ahead. So 0:55:34.200 --> 0:55:36.080 let me ask you something. Right when you see these 0:55:36.120 --> 0:55:41.239 big companies like um a Gucci hiring a Dapper dam 0:55:41.680 --> 0:55:45.600 and then a Louis Bitton hiring like a virgin, Like, 0:55:45.840 --> 0:55:47.880 is that something you ever wanted to, like, like to 0:55:48.000 --> 0:55:52.080 do like with one of these higher in brands, and like, yeah, 0:55:52.080 --> 0:55:56.720 I would design robolex food watch. Yeah. I mean I think, yeah, absolutely, 0:55:56.760 --> 0:55:59.680 I mean I think that if I felt that if 0:55:59.680 --> 0:56:01.120 I just as some fly ship, I don't even know 0:56:01.160 --> 0:56:03.600 how fly that was. I just said, remember my bad, 0:56:03.680 --> 0:56:05.960 my bad, Okay you no, Absolutely if I think that, 0:56:06.719 --> 0:56:08.200 I think it made sense and I think that it 0:56:08.239 --> 0:56:10.680 could be authentic. Yeah if they if they just slap 0:56:10.800 --> 0:56:13.400 somebody name on it, then it's not gonna happen. But 0:56:13.440 --> 0:56:15.719 the way they messed with Dappa, they're letting Dappa be 0:56:16.239 --> 0:56:18.680 Dapper Dad. You know what I'm saying. We've seen brands 0:56:18.719 --> 0:56:21.920 that having work because they slapped some name on it, 0:56:23.000 --> 0:56:25.319 but not absolutely. Yeah, if it was something that would 0:56:25.360 --> 0:56:27.600 set you to maybe something that was you will be 0:56:27.680 --> 0:56:30.279 looking forward to, Like if someone called you some of you, 0:56:30.640 --> 0:56:32.279 it would have to be branded our support. So I 0:56:32.360 --> 0:56:35.520 love I love y three, um tom Ford, but he 0:56:35.640 --> 0:56:38.160 too talented for me. Man, you know Tom Tom run 0:56:38.239 --> 0:56:41.279 service around me. But I love Tom Ford. Um um, 0:56:43.520 --> 0:56:49.120 let me see why cell that I said, why three pooma? 0:56:49.160 --> 0:56:51.480 Definitely I'm already hy three and XEL is not the 0:56:51.520 --> 0:56:55.719 same thing, right east Link you mean he said, or 0:56:56.640 --> 0:56:59.160 why three y three? That's not that's that's the deeds 0:56:59.320 --> 0:57:05.640 uh high in the high Oh okay a cool cool. 0:57:05.719 --> 0:57:10.480 I definitely watched brands. Um yeah, like you ever like 0:57:10.560 --> 0:57:13.560 you ever see like um, the cars like they're like 0:57:13.680 --> 0:57:16.680 they have like like the Eddie Bower Edition, Yeah edition 0:57:16.840 --> 0:57:19.080 like that. Yeah, so I would love and the artists 0:57:19.080 --> 0:57:21.480 have done didn't Jay do something? She wagons and stuff 0:57:21.520 --> 0:57:23.640 like that, because I don't know what the artists that 0:57:23.720 --> 0:57:27.560 have had some signature vehicle thing. No, I don't really cool. 0:57:27.560 --> 0:57:30.320 I don't think we have Jay designed a huge blow 0:57:30.440 --> 0:57:32.960 or something like that, and he designed like, were you 0:57:33.000 --> 0:57:37.320 gonna do something with Pitt? What? What about? What? You know? 0:57:37.400 --> 0:57:39.720 Who You're gonna do something though? Right, that's my product. 0:57:39.720 --> 0:57:41.400 We've done a lot together. That's my that's my man 0:57:42.040 --> 0:57:45.440 stuff Togeah, we worked together. We still have working relationship. 0:57:45.520 --> 0:57:47.919 You know. I think he's um again, like you're talking 0:57:47.920 --> 0:57:50.960 to me about artists and people that I've worked with 0:57:50.960 --> 0:57:53.840 in the past. You know, the same the same, you know, 0:57:54.240 --> 0:57:57.920 l Pitt and part Ashians have the same exact model. 0:57:58.000 --> 0:58:00.240 Lennox Lewis think we wake up before it way they 0:58:00.280 --> 0:58:03.040 go and sleep after everybody. They over analyze their customers, 0:58:03.080 --> 0:58:05.680 they think outside the box. They don't get related with 0:58:05.800 --> 0:58:09.360 two many things. That's super particularly they're they're extremely well 0:58:09.600 --> 0:58:13.480 versed business people. So um, you know, you know when 0:58:13.480 --> 0:58:14.840 you know you know, you know, you know when you 0:58:14.920 --> 0:58:16.360 know the type to Pete, I think you'll feel that 0:58:16.400 --> 0:58:19.200 way about Mr Lee when you talk to a right 0:58:20.040 --> 0:58:22.640 right now now. One thing that before we because this 0:58:22.720 --> 0:58:24.600 is the second part of the show. We gotta get it. 0:58:24.800 --> 0:58:27.880 But one thing that I wanted to ask you because um, 0:58:28.480 --> 0:58:31.520 you're a black man. I'm a black man. Uh, you're 0:58:31.560 --> 0:58:35.040 from Queens. I'm from Queens. My wife is Latino, you 0:58:35.080 --> 0:58:38.000 know what I'm saying. And your wife is his wife. 0:58:38.400 --> 0:58:40.640 Have you ever like received any type of criticism for 0:58:40.680 --> 0:58:43.320 that because because of the whole for us by us, 0:58:43.800 --> 0:58:45.720 you know the thing and like people try to like 0:58:45.840 --> 0:58:50.440 you know, yeah, you know the funny thing. Um, I 0:58:50.560 --> 0:58:53.600 posted a picture for for a birthday or waiting photos 0:58:53.960 --> 0:59:00.480 and ninety five percent of the comments for extremely We've 0:59:00.520 --> 0:59:04.040 been together twelve years, have have a three year old 0:59:04.080 --> 0:59:07.640 little baby girl and um. But but you know, I 0:59:07.720 --> 0:59:09.680 was always proud of the negative commons because the negative 0:59:09.720 --> 0:59:15.240 comments came from people of color, like always, and it's funny. 0:59:15.240 --> 0:59:18.000 You know, you don't really know my history. My history 0:59:18.120 --> 0:59:21.040 is that my father left when I was ten. My 0:59:21.120 --> 0:59:23.280 stepfather came into my life where I called my stepfather. 0:59:23.680 --> 0:59:27.240 Happens to be of the Jewish faith, his and and 0:59:27.440 --> 0:59:28.720 they had nothing to do with this whole thing in 0:59:28.800 --> 0:59:32.960 Foobo in South Africa. But his brother was a lead 0:59:33.920 --> 0:59:38.480 attorney over here in America for helping to free Mandela Um. 0:59:38.960 --> 0:59:40.560 And he always told me one thing you always said, 0:59:40.600 --> 0:59:43.080 you know, David always be pro black, but never I 0:59:43.120 --> 0:59:48.760 anti anything else. And I learned something about him. I loved. 0:59:48.800 --> 0:59:51.880 I learned that love doesn't come into color or agenda. 0:59:52.240 --> 0:59:54.160 And I learned that white people are just as fucked 0:59:54.200 --> 0:59:57.320 up as all of us, right, they had the same problem, 0:59:57.440 --> 1:00:02.920 the same challenges. So my first wife is Dominican. I've 1:00:03.000 --> 1:00:06.000 dated a lot of females of all colors and races 1:00:06.080 --> 1:00:10.120 and religions. And when I found that that people people 1:00:10.600 --> 1:00:15.560 they're so busy trying to fight to avoid racism, prejudice 1:00:15.560 --> 1:00:17.000 and things of that nature, but they're becoming the person 1:00:17.000 --> 1:00:21.560 they're trying to fight against. And and I was fascinating, 1:00:21.680 --> 1:00:22.920 not because I was fat, you know why. I was 1:00:22.960 --> 1:00:26.960 fascinating because why does that person care about who I love? 1:00:28.320 --> 1:00:30.840 And every single thing, every time changes happened in our 1:00:30.880 --> 1:00:32.600 country and most likely the world, it took people of 1:00:32.640 --> 1:00:35.400 all colors, all right, There was a lot of people 1:00:35.400 --> 1:00:38.280 of all color in every match that Martin Luther had 1:00:38.440 --> 1:00:41.320 those white people with in those marches. But then again, 1:00:41.360 --> 1:00:43.120 I'm trying to be the optimistic person. I think the 1:00:43.200 --> 1:00:46.680 people that don't have access to people of other colors 1:00:46.760 --> 1:00:49.160 and cultures don't know what they don't know. So what 1:00:49.360 --> 1:00:52.760 you're carrying a tiki torch down in charles Ville or 1:00:52.800 --> 1:00:55.360 whatever the cases, or you're hating on me online because 1:00:55.360 --> 1:00:58.040 the person that that that I happened to love, who 1:00:58.160 --> 1:01:03.360 has now a half the child of color whatever, and 1:01:03.440 --> 1:01:06.320 then they're sitting there yelling at me. I'm going, do 1:01:06.440 --> 1:01:08.240 you think that she ain't been called the nigger LoVa? 1:01:09.320 --> 1:01:12.320 You know what she's been through as well, and do 1:01:12.440 --> 1:01:13.880 you want that? Damn? You? Like, we're in the room 1:01:13.920 --> 1:01:15.080 here and there's a whole bunch of people a lot 1:01:15.120 --> 1:01:18.000 of color here, and you probably work with them because 1:01:18.000 --> 1:01:19.320 they're the best, and they work with you because they 1:01:19.320 --> 1:01:21.000 believe you're the best. What the hell is who I 1:01:21.360 --> 1:01:25.320 got to do with anything? So I was finding fascinating 1:01:25.320 --> 1:01:26.720 and I learned from the people in the army when 1:01:26.760 --> 1:01:28.400 they said, do I really care who that man don't 1:01:28.400 --> 1:01:30.080 want to praise to God? Or who they have sex 1:01:30.160 --> 1:01:31.520 with when I'm on the front line and I need 1:01:31.600 --> 1:01:33.480 them to have my back. So I find it fascinating. 1:01:33.520 --> 1:01:38.760 Don't try, don't hate something and become the thing that's 1:01:39.680 --> 1:01:45.840 So that's the really thick because it's like, um, I 1:01:45.920 --> 1:01:49.840 got I got six children, most five five of them 1:01:49.960 --> 1:01:57.920 are you know, I want to say mostly blacks, mostly 1:01:59.080 --> 1:02:02.080 said most of the most. I mean because you know, 1:02:02.240 --> 1:02:05.160 my my new wife, she's very light skinned, like she's buried, 1:02:05.440 --> 1:02:09.560 and people get that missing. Yeah, But what I'm saying is, 1:02:09.760 --> 1:02:11.960 and I understand that the thing is you fall in 1:02:12.000 --> 1:02:13.720 love with who fall in love, but you shouldn't have 1:02:13.840 --> 1:02:16.080 to explain that or you know what I'm saying, Like 1:02:16.120 --> 1:02:18.160 at the end of the day, I see human being 1:02:19.480 --> 1:02:23.200 and then I see asshole after that, And did I 1:02:23.320 --> 1:02:25.960 see your race? So I see you as a human 1:02:26.560 --> 1:02:28.560 and did I see you as a person and then 1:02:28.640 --> 1:02:31.280 I see your race? You know what I'm saying. So, um, 1:02:31.720 --> 1:02:35.520 if you're a great person, I probably don't it probably wasn't. 1:02:35.640 --> 1:02:39.480 Probably your race probably won't matter, just doesn't. But if 1:02:39.520 --> 1:02:43.480 you're a dick, if you're if your race don't you 1:02:43.520 --> 1:02:45.400 know what I'm saying, You're just a dick. You know 1:02:45.440 --> 1:02:48.200 what I'm you also when you don't even getting happened 1:02:48.200 --> 1:02:51.040 to be you know, in talking about an intimate relationship, 1:02:51.760 --> 1:02:55.280 you expand you you expand your network and your access 1:02:55.400 --> 1:02:58.000 to things when you work with people of all colors. 1:02:58.760 --> 1:03:00.640 And that the whole issue we say, Gluci is having 1:03:00.680 --> 1:03:03.960 a challenge with me. So when you're open to everybody, 1:03:04.040 --> 1:03:06.240 like we all we listen, man, I'm not trying to 1:03:06.280 --> 1:03:09.320 be all or woman fun. But we we got we 1:03:09.400 --> 1:03:11.240 got more things that we talk, more things all over 1:03:11.240 --> 1:03:13.200 the world in common, and we have against each other. 1:03:13.840 --> 1:03:15.240 We just want to feed our families. You know that 1:03:15.360 --> 1:03:18.080 we don't get judged prematroity some ship we ain't do 1:03:18.520 --> 1:03:21.000 and work hard. It's just like it's just like you 1:03:21.040 --> 1:03:24.760 know when I go through the airport, like now, like 1:03:24.960 --> 1:03:27.760 what the Gucci thing and you know what the Trump thing. 1:03:27.880 --> 1:03:30.240 It's like I get nervous immediately when I see somebody 1:03:30.280 --> 1:03:32.520 with a Trump had, you know, because I know they 1:03:32.600 --> 1:03:34.240 might play for the other side. I know they might 1:03:34.320 --> 1:03:36.600 not they might not funk with me, you know what 1:03:36.640 --> 1:03:39.040 I'm saying. Like, so I immediately just you know what 1:03:39.120 --> 1:03:41.240 I'm saying. But when you see like I don't remember 1:03:41.360 --> 1:03:45.760 like we came to me the Russia at one time, 1:03:46.000 --> 1:03:48.920 and it was crazy because me and fam we had 1:03:48.960 --> 1:03:51.920 to deal with this soth. It was somebody can't pick 1:03:52.040 --> 1:03:55.040 us up in Russia. And they got buttons on their 1:03:55.080 --> 1:03:58.280 shirt and it says Russians against racism. Now you know 1:03:58.480 --> 1:04:01.760 where you at if they got to where that on 1:04:01.920 --> 1:04:06.480 a motherfucking shure, like we was dead meat, Like this 1:04:06.600 --> 1:04:09.920 is how racists they counted. It literally say how racists 1:04:09.960 --> 1:04:11.520 they were. This is how you know that racist there 1:04:11.640 --> 1:04:14.280 is when they didn't even look at me in my face, 1:04:15.080 --> 1:04:16.600 like at least look at me in my face and 1:04:16.640 --> 1:04:19.720 be like fuck you, like they looked they looked away 1:04:19.840 --> 1:04:22.360 like they was like, oh ship, nigger, nothing, just like 1:04:22.640 --> 1:04:27.160 I was like, oh ship, you separated for like five 1:04:27.200 --> 1:04:33.840 minutes compa, you know. And this is like when the 1:04:33.960 --> 1:04:36.280 phones like like they didn't know how to connect to 1:04:37.720 --> 1:04:40.280 in the Moscow you know. I mean, so, I mean 1:04:40.440 --> 1:04:44.320 it's real life ship, you know. Um that happened. So 1:04:44.440 --> 1:04:47.560 when you see like I follow you on Instagram and 1:04:47.600 --> 1:04:49.720 I got to see your daughter playing with a bi 1:04:49.840 --> 1:04:55.120 racial baby dog and and um I thought that was 1:04:55.240 --> 1:04:57.320 dope because I mean you gotta spread that. You gotta 1:04:57.320 --> 1:05:00.160 spread what happens. You gotta spread you know who you 1:05:00.240 --> 1:05:02.400 fall in love with. This is your business, you know 1:05:02.440 --> 1:05:05.280 what I'm saying. But you shouldn't hide that at all. Exactly. 1:05:05.400 --> 1:05:08.880 You should be how you want to be and continue 1:05:08.920 --> 1:05:10.560 and continue to do that. You know what I'm saying. 1:05:10.640 --> 1:05:14.960 You know what I'm saying. Because because um um Dre 1:05:15.120 --> 1:05:20.439 got a white wife. Isn't she white? Dr Dre? She's nice? 1:05:20.760 --> 1:05:23.640 She white? What's she white? Though? And he said she's 1:05:23.680 --> 1:05:30.760 back and there ain't nothing wrong me. Like, listen, man, 1:05:31.080 --> 1:05:33.760 as long as we because sooner or later we're all 1:05:33.800 --> 1:05:35.720 gonna be one race. We keep sucking each other, I'm 1:05:35.720 --> 1:05:39.439 just gonna all gonna be one race anyway it's gonna 1:05:39.440 --> 1:05:42.520 be called that's not race, It's gonna be you know 1:05:42.560 --> 1:05:44.200 what I'm saying. So hold I'm going to a break 1:05:44.200 --> 1:05:46.760 because we're gonna take it back from break. We should 1:05:46.800 --> 1:05:49.160 live and then we're gonna let do their page all right, cool? 1:05:49.640 --> 1:05:52.440 Hold on, let me go to take a brack. Do 1:05:52.480 --> 1:05:56.120 you need to mike them? Guys? We're back like a 1:05:56.160 --> 1:06:01.280 half time crap by umt man, she's just going down 1:06:01.360 --> 1:06:04.960 before we get into continuous pictures. Because I've been the 1:06:05.000 --> 1:06:06.880 detecrity of the show's gonna go right out to window 1:06:06.960 --> 1:06:10.400 right now. I think there's a billion dollar deal. We're 1:06:10.440 --> 1:06:13.120 gonna be a shot too. But I'm gonna be honest. 1:06:13.280 --> 1:06:17.080 I'm investing. If I invested, it's gonna be my my 1:06:17.200 --> 1:06:20.400 money out of the monopoly money, my kids. But I 1:06:20.520 --> 1:06:25.360 believe you because I don't trust either one of these guys. Right. 1:06:25.440 --> 1:06:27.520 But before we get into that, I want to get 1:06:27.520 --> 1:06:30.440 I want to ask about Damon on Demand. Now, Now, 1:06:30.560 --> 1:06:33.120 what is that? How could the consumers and the people 1:06:33.480 --> 1:06:35.520 be a partner show? Show? Damon run Demand is as 1:06:35.560 --> 1:06:37.360 I was talking about my books I have with a 1:06:37.440 --> 1:06:43.120 digital curriculum and it's eight hours of basically all the 1:06:43.200 --> 1:06:45.160 things you need to know about starting the business. How 1:06:45.160 --> 1:06:47.880 do you get funding, who's your target audience, and all 1:06:47.920 --> 1:06:49.320 those things you need? What do you do when you 1:06:49.360 --> 1:06:51.960 go to the bank. When do you need funding? Because 1:06:51.960 --> 1:06:54.880 the main reason why small businesses and startups fail is 1:06:54.880 --> 1:06:58.720 actually overfunding. They raised too much money too quick to 1:06:58.880 --> 1:07:01.680 sit there and say, you know what, I want to 1:07:01.680 --> 1:07:04.400 open up a bakery because my grandmother's cupcakes with the 1:07:04.480 --> 1:07:06.520 best in town, and I'm one of a bakery. I'm 1:07:06.520 --> 1:07:08.000 gonna go get a hundred thousan dollars and I gonna 1:07:08.000 --> 1:07:12.000 open up a bakery. But they never sell a cupcake ever, right, 1:07:12.360 --> 1:07:13.920 So they go and open up a bakery. They got 1:07:14.000 --> 1:07:16.479 the register look like a damn cupcake, the couch looks 1:07:16.480 --> 1:07:18.560 like a cupcake. They got everything looks like a couple. 1:07:18.680 --> 1:07:21.440 They never sold a cupcake though. Then they got software, 1:07:21.520 --> 1:07:23.960 the bad software. Now every time they opened up and 1:07:24.040 --> 1:07:25.840 they try to sell a cupcake. The little kid, every 1:07:25.880 --> 1:07:27.560 time he sells a cupcake, he sticks the other one 1:07:27.600 --> 1:07:30.520 in his pocket. They find out that, you know, there's 1:07:30.520 --> 1:07:32.960 a little kid in the preschool or down the block. 1:07:33.040 --> 1:07:35.240 They got a peanut allergy. They gotta close off half 1:07:35.280 --> 1:07:37.600 a block for And they find out there's a little 1:07:37.600 --> 1:07:41.160 grandmother that work in the church that she sell cupcakes 1:07:41.240 --> 1:07:44.080 like crack every week. Now they got a hundred thousand 1:07:44.080 --> 1:07:47.960 all alone, and they haven't figured out how to move 1:07:48.080 --> 1:07:50.800 their business. You see, because when you start with business, 1:07:50.840 --> 1:07:52.800 or whether you whether you're in the music business, whether 1:07:52.880 --> 1:07:55.120 the podcast, and you got to build a customer base first. 1:07:56.560 --> 1:08:00.440 You can't. Money only highlights your weaknesses. If you got 1:08:00.520 --> 1:08:03.160 crappy advertising, then go buy a million dollars worth of 1:08:03.240 --> 1:08:08.440 more crappy advertising. You got ship as shirts, go buy 1:08:08.520 --> 1:08:12.040 more inventory of shitty as shirts. So that's what usually 1:08:12.080 --> 1:08:15.000 happen because people think that money is the solution when 1:08:15.040 --> 1:08:18.200 it's really building an audience and people who are gonna 1:08:18.200 --> 1:08:20.080 go out and fight you the LLL who's gonna put 1:08:20.120 --> 1:08:22.960 your name in the gap at the people that used 1:08:22.960 --> 1:08:25.160 to come from Detroit to Queens to my shitty house 1:08:25.200 --> 1:08:27.040 and Queens and go back to Detroit and be like, Yo, 1:08:27.120 --> 1:08:29.559 I'm the fool dude, I'm the fooloo girl in Detroit. 1:08:30.400 --> 1:08:32.400 You need that army the same as the people who 1:08:32.400 --> 1:08:36.040 are listening right now. Those people become smarter every day 1:08:36.120 --> 1:08:39.000 after they listen to the podcast and they share it 1:08:39.160 --> 1:08:42.400 that information. They're the smartest person of the watercooler Monday morning. 1:08:42.920 --> 1:08:45.120 So that's what Damon the Man is showing you how 1:08:45.280 --> 1:08:47.519 to navigate and go through those mistakes. But it's not 1:08:47.600 --> 1:08:50.000 something you just watches on the computer. So what happens 1:08:50.040 --> 1:08:52.599 is you feel out of you, you feel out think. 1:08:52.600 --> 1:08:54.840 So it's just like, Yo, you just took this test. 1:08:55.439 --> 1:08:56.800 Do you need this funny? Because this is that if 1:08:56.840 --> 1:08:59.200 you say no and it's supposed to be yes, it 1:08:59.280 --> 1:09:01.760 kicks you back to you start old again, because repetition 1:09:03.160 --> 1:09:06.040 sinks in, it sings in. Are you starting to learn 1:09:06.120 --> 1:09:08.000 the mistakes? You don't just go, oh yo, I read 1:09:08.040 --> 1:09:10.560 the book. I'm done because you may have interpreted that 1:09:10.720 --> 1:09:15.439 book a hundred different ways wrong too. It kicks you back. 1:09:15.800 --> 1:09:17.640 And so so I'm gonna end up. We're gonna do 1:09:17.720 --> 1:09:21.519 something together with We give people a special access code 1:09:22.080 --> 1:09:24.680 only for checking us out here, and we just want 1:09:24.680 --> 1:09:27.000 to empower people. That's make some noise for that man. 1:09:31.680 --> 1:09:34.040 Now again, we're s some noise for how many of 1:09:34.040 --> 1:09:40.360 those are called blunts? Yes? Yes? How many mother that? Yeah? Yeah? 1:09:41.280 --> 1:09:45.040 Now listening with the joints right there. I totally don't 1:09:45.120 --> 1:09:47.840 know what's going on right now. I'm totally I just 1:09:48.040 --> 1:09:50.920 know that we we we were big fans of shark tank. 1:09:51.880 --> 1:09:55.960 We was trying to create drink tank or tring tank 1:09:56.080 --> 1:10:00.280 or it didn't work out like that, we did. You 1:10:00.360 --> 1:10:03.440 know what we go from? Two of them are craziest, 1:10:03.520 --> 1:10:11.040 two rightest, brightest, shouldn't say brightest s failure. So I'm 1:10:11.080 --> 1:10:15.840 gonna go with the Haitian guy first. HATI guys about 1:10:15.840 --> 1:10:19.040 saying that I used the microphone ware here? No, no, no, 1:10:19.360 --> 1:10:22.599 we got to play some you you were, Mike du Bluddy, 1:10:23.320 --> 1:10:30.519 we're here. Yeah, welcome to Chin Tank a K drink tank. Okay, 1:10:30.560 --> 1:10:32.200 you gotta say your name and where are you from? 1:10:32.880 --> 1:10:38.280 Sudden they be to you right here? Goddamn you call 1:10:38.479 --> 1:10:42.320 your people. Yes, I gotta like there. It's a little 1:10:43.680 --> 1:10:47.320 he asked you the question. Yeah, your life. He has 1:10:47.400 --> 1:10:51.720 to pitch your head. God, we don't even know what 1:10:51.920 --> 1:10:54.720 the I you just saying with your art? Hey man, 1:10:56.080 --> 1:11:01.840 what you got here? What is here? It's simple, like 1:11:02.000 --> 1:11:06.800 the concept of it's kind of like a uber but 1:11:07.080 --> 1:11:14.040 it's um but it's uber. Listen the dogs walking uber 1:11:15.760 --> 1:11:19.240 that might example with their dogs. Oh no matter what's city, 1:11:19.280 --> 1:11:21.280 anywhere in the world you are. You hit the uber 1:11:21.360 --> 1:11:23.880 and there's already someone there that he was ready to 1:11:23.920 --> 1:11:26.760 walk your dogs then use at your hotel. Exist. I 1:11:26.840 --> 1:11:28.720 think that exists. I don't know that it exists. I 1:11:28.760 --> 1:11:34.000 don't think so. I haven't seen it. Does it? Does it? Yea? Yeah? 1:11:36.280 --> 1:11:42.400 Like T shirts existed at that. It's just how how 1:11:42.400 --> 1:11:44.479 are you gonna how you're gonna build it? It's not 1:11:44.600 --> 1:11:47.439 a bad idea, right, You're gonna create a better mousetrap, 1:11:47.600 --> 1:11:50.679 But how are you gonna build it. Well, I haven't 1:11:50.720 --> 1:11:57.280 thought about all that. You've got two languages. You're here. 1:12:00.080 --> 1:12:02.439 It's like I said, it's already is this call wag, 1:12:02.840 --> 1:12:05.360 So let's speak the languages in every other country. You 1:12:05.479 --> 1:12:18.800 gotta go back, don't you go? Liten shrug industry right 1:12:18.840 --> 1:12:26.800 now there to go back to the listen man. You 1:12:26.880 --> 1:12:33.720 gotta give it up the people who standing there, and 1:12:33.840 --> 1:12:39.600 you all just save him a lot of money represented 1:12:42.320 --> 1:12:45.519 happy happy at her story of all follows, say your 1:12:45.600 --> 1:12:48.400 name and what you fun? But I'm miss something. I'm 1:12:48.400 --> 1:12:50.840 from New York when I leave in my hand man 1:13:00.960 --> 1:13:08.000 Miami right now the Latin from the Latins. See how 1:13:08.080 --> 1:13:10.320 a lot of the thing those like guys they're doing 1:13:10.360 --> 1:13:15.280 the eyebrows. Now, I guess there's a lot of money 1:13:15.360 --> 1:13:18.040 there to me. You can't so you get your eyebrows done? 1:13:21.360 --> 1:13:27.120 Does that's true? It's true. We gets the eye eyebrows 1:13:27.600 --> 1:13:30.080 like you coming with us with something that they can 1:13:30.200 --> 1:13:31.760 you know, for guys to come here like girls go 1:13:31.840 --> 1:13:34.679 to the barber, I mean the pet part of the dude. 1:13:34.720 --> 1:13:37.720 They get their hair done, they get the eyebrows. So 1:13:37.760 --> 1:13:39.320 I said, they just do it. Funding up to those 1:13:39.360 --> 1:13:41.880 for the guys, so so shows the purpose that you 1:13:41.960 --> 1:13:43.960 feel a guy doesn't want to really go into the 1:13:44.000 --> 1:13:46.479 shop and you want to do it at home, so 1:13:46.640 --> 1:13:50.439 simple ways that he's not looking feminine when he's doing it. Yeah, 1:13:51.120 --> 1:13:53.439 I really don't think that's what he meant. Did you 1:13:53.680 --> 1:13:58.720 get that? Because I would think, here's a guy I 1:13:58.800 --> 1:14:02.040 want to go into the shop. But I mean some 1:14:02.160 --> 1:14:04.760 of them are embarrassing. No, but in Puerto Rico, and 1:14:05.560 --> 1:14:08.160 in his defense, in Puerto Rico, if you go to 1:14:08.280 --> 1:14:11.080 a barber shop, that's one of the first things they domatically, 1:14:11.240 --> 1:14:13.360 automatically go to your eyes. Okay, so you want to 1:14:13.400 --> 1:14:15.760 do it at home and they were like coming to 1:14:15.880 --> 1:14:19.559 your Oh they're doing at your crib? You really been? Okay, 1:14:19.640 --> 1:14:22.240 that's a good idea, runner, dude, but I ain't gonna 1:14:22.240 --> 1:14:26.120 start it. I mean, that's no. What's the name of 1:14:26.160 --> 1:14:31.080 your business? On my own job? What's what's your name 1:14:31.120 --> 1:14:49.400 of this business? Man? The creative rum? I tell you 1:14:49.600 --> 1:14:58.680 the best and bright shot? What's your head sales? What 1:14:58.800 --> 1:15:02.360 are you listen? You know what? You should have pieced too? 1:15:02.360 --> 1:15:03.840 Because I look like you got hit easy in your net. 1:15:05.439 --> 1:15:09.160 You see you should you should have remover? How about that? 1:15:10.360 --> 1:15:13.880 About but about the eyebrows ship, I'm not gonna lie. 1:15:14.479 --> 1:15:19.160 You know, it sounds like it's best. Huh. I'm thinking 1:15:19.200 --> 1:15:21.560 about it. I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking about it. 1:15:21.880 --> 1:15:25.800 How to go to commerce your break because I'm thinking 1:15:25.800 --> 1:15:28.280 about that, I'm lacking a lot. That's one thing about 1:15:28.280 --> 1:15:31.519 the Latino race is they get different type of haircuts, 1:15:32.640 --> 1:15:34.720 like they come like like if you go to the 1:15:34.760 --> 1:15:37.920 Black bobber shop. They're not touching your fucking eyebrows. You 1:15:37.960 --> 1:15:39.160 know what I'm saying. Most of the time, I don't 1:15:39.160 --> 1:15:41.760 even touch your nose heads. You got accidental touch about 1:15:41.760 --> 1:15:44.400 nose here, you know what I'm said. But with that, 1:15:44.479 --> 1:15:48.200 but but but but but usually successful entrepreneurs of people 1:15:48.240 --> 1:15:50.320 that see a need in the market that's not being 1:15:50.400 --> 1:15:54.280 fully addressed. Again, going back to when I I did 1:15:54.320 --> 1:15:56.120 the car did the cars. I wanted money, but I 1:15:56.200 --> 1:16:00.320 did food because something needed to change. And he's seeing 1:16:00.439 --> 1:16:02.320 a need in this show. I'm not being funny. It's 1:16:03.600 --> 1:16:05.479 you see the ship. They got face on their eyebro 1:16:06.600 --> 1:16:16.400 Caesar's baby affron thrown out. Yeah, we'll think about yeah, yeah, 1:16:17.760 --> 1:16:27.160 think about that. I'm yeah, I'm not how could you 1:16:27.640 --> 1:16:34.120 do that? One? That now onto the side, like aside 1:16:34.160 --> 1:16:36.800 from sneak, I was serious, but you know, my guys 1:16:36.840 --> 1:16:39.840 are playing. But how many how many? How many times 1:16:39.920 --> 1:16:43.800 a day are you walking on a day like people 1:16:43.840 --> 1:16:46.200 just coming up to Yeah, I get you wouldn't elevator 1:16:46.280 --> 1:16:49.880 and somebody get patched. Probably about I was eight times 1:16:49.960 --> 1:16:56.639 a day. Probably about that one was that catch your attention? 1:16:56.800 --> 1:16:59.960 Not at all. I'll tell you how you don't catch 1:17:00.000 --> 1:17:02.240 They don't have my attention because they may have good ideas, 1:17:02.240 --> 1:17:03.879 but they don't wonder how the first is gonna execute. 1:17:03.880 --> 1:17:06.760 And I don't have time. If I had time to 1:17:06.840 --> 1:17:10.160 make everything hot, then people would be Nike. I only 1:17:10.240 --> 1:17:12.800 have a limited amount of time. Show I can't do 1:17:12.880 --> 1:17:15.960 it because then I'll draw on an opportunity. So you know, 1:17:16.120 --> 1:17:18.160 it's just it's challenging. But I don't get mad at 1:17:18.160 --> 1:17:19.560 people pitching me because all they want to do is 1:17:20.120 --> 1:17:23.680 they want to do is change their lives. So I 1:17:23.720 --> 1:17:25.680 ain't mad at it. But yeah, I get pitched a lot. 1:17:25.920 --> 1:17:29.040 Yeah that's that's funny because I'll be like walking through 1:17:29.040 --> 1:17:31.960 when Dixie and publics and people but he can run. 1:17:32.040 --> 1:17:34.120 I'd be like, they don't even wait for me to 1:17:34.200 --> 1:17:41.600 say I'm busy, they just start spitting. I'm like, so 1:17:42.160 --> 1:17:45.760 like that's that's MC. And I can imagine like people 1:17:45.800 --> 1:17:47.400 were like look at you like they're gonna think it 1:17:47.479 --> 1:17:49.479 gonna be a big person in president. Let me I 1:17:49.600 --> 1:17:51.719 got any times in person, it's about twenty or thirty 1:17:51.760 --> 1:17:54.880 and then all the stuff, the emails calls and okay, 1:17:55.560 --> 1:18:00.880 has has um uh? Has it got every boys at 1:18:00.960 --> 1:18:03.040 one point or you you still look at it like 1:18:03.680 --> 1:18:05.240 you know, this is your job and this is the 1:18:05.360 --> 1:18:08.439 nine never gets unbearable. I know the cameras are there. 1:18:08.560 --> 1:18:11.400 I have the opportunity to leave Shark Tank about one um. 1:18:12.160 --> 1:18:14.479 And again it's not like in your situation or you know, 1:18:14.560 --> 1:18:16.320 somebody want to be a model or somebody want to 1:18:16.320 --> 1:18:18.559 be an artist, and they just start builting out songs 1:18:19.120 --> 1:18:20.800 like these people. A lot of people really have well 1:18:20.880 --> 1:18:23.200 through thought out ideas. They may be good idea, Like 1:18:23.240 --> 1:18:25.240 you've said, how many investing I just don't have time, 1:18:26.280 --> 1:18:28.800 But you have to meet some people that haven't. Their 1:18:28.840 --> 1:18:30.840 ideas can get I mean I mean some, I mean 1:18:30.960 --> 1:18:35.040 some like that is frustrating to a degree. We'll know 1:18:35.120 --> 1:18:39.120 it's frustrating when I go how much time on money 1:18:39.160 --> 1:18:40.320 you put into this and they'd be like, no, I'm 1:18:40.360 --> 1:18:42.840 here for you to do that, like they just did. 1:18:45.280 --> 1:18:46.479 I don't know who, he would saying, I want you 1:18:46.479 --> 1:18:48.720 to direct me, but I'd like, yo, but don't you 1:18:48.800 --> 1:18:51.720 think I came up with my own ideas today? You 1:18:51.800 --> 1:18:53.120 know that's it. I ain't got time to do. You know. 1:18:53.200 --> 1:18:56.160 That's the funny thing about even even us, as people 1:18:56.280 --> 1:18:59.280 think that there's a they think they're putting on as 1:18:59.320 --> 1:19:01.400 a button. They didn't like, I put you on, and 1:19:01.479 --> 1:19:04.080 like but yeah, and then they just put on No, 1:19:04.479 --> 1:19:06.280 I can put you on. You still have to work 1:19:06.360 --> 1:19:08.439 for you to be there, you know what I'm saying. 1:19:08.439 --> 1:19:10.040 And a lot of people just don't get that, you 1:19:10.080 --> 1:19:12.280 know what I mean, harder even when you get put on. 1:19:12.600 --> 1:19:14.160 I see the other day, you know, I seen the 1:19:14.200 --> 1:19:16.880 other day it was Lebron meet mal and they were 1:19:16.880 --> 1:19:19.479 all talking about how they had to like, you know, 1:19:19.680 --> 1:19:22.720 give things to certain people or certain people felt like 1:19:22.840 --> 1:19:26.000 that that that that that they deserved it. Because it's 1:19:26.040 --> 1:19:27.760 like right now, right if I was to ask, I 1:19:27.880 --> 1:19:29.800 was to ask my man right here right as just 1:19:29.840 --> 1:19:33.200 saying what was your name again? I'm so sorry Alex, 1:19:33.439 --> 1:19:35.880 I would say, Alex, can you want me to the store, right, 1:19:36.280 --> 1:19:38.400 I want nobody. Alex doesn't give a funk, he would 1:19:38.439 --> 1:19:40.519 never bring up me. Welcome to them the store. But 1:19:40.600 --> 1:19:43.840 I become this big popular a guy. Then two years 1:19:43.880 --> 1:19:45.519 from now Alexe is like I remember he had to 1:19:45.560 --> 1:19:49.080 want to walk with the shore and now Alex because 1:19:49.160 --> 1:19:52.400 I'm famous. You know, like have you ever had you 1:19:52.479 --> 1:19:55.080 know that level of successful? People just feel like because 1:19:55.120 --> 1:19:57.679 you slept on a girl's couch one night in sixth 1:19:57.720 --> 1:20:00.560 grade that you know what I'm saying that, like you 1:20:00.720 --> 1:20:03.320 older girl now like oh yeah, you know there's a 1:20:03.320 --> 1:20:05.360 old saying what's the old said? Success? Had had a 1:20:05.439 --> 1:20:09.200 lot of parents bail years in offing, right, And you 1:20:09.280 --> 1:20:11.200 know I hear it all the time, and I give 1:20:11.320 --> 1:20:13.479 thanks to all those that help me, Like you won't 1:20:13.520 --> 1:20:15.439 see me here front of like there wasn't calling on 1:20:15.520 --> 1:20:18.479 a cross cold before me. L didn't l reached out 1:20:18.560 --> 1:20:20.360 to help me because he didn't need me around me 1:20:20.479 --> 1:20:22.720 Daniels over here. I don't mind doing that, but yeah 1:20:22.720 --> 1:20:25.360 it a random cats who as tidn losing it. We're 1:20:25.400 --> 1:20:29.280 doing the Puma collection, releasing the Coloseum probably about six 1:20:29.320 --> 1:20:32.840 months ago, and the three dudes and then I don't 1:20:32.880 --> 1:20:35.240 even know these dudes. I ne's running around the starts 1:20:35.280 --> 1:20:38.439 one like yeah, yeah, who cats can make the hood. 1:20:38.479 --> 1:20:39.800 I had him shook, you know, I used to have 1:20:39.920 --> 1:20:43.360 him under pressure, so you know, and I think you 1:20:43.400 --> 1:20:46.720 know my executive security grim next Naci, look like he 1:20:46.840 --> 1:20:50.080 breaks for breakfast. You won't go here? What you just 1:20:50.160 --> 1:20:52.280 saying on him? Like no, no, no, I don't want 1:20:52.320 --> 1:20:54.040 to know what to dude. I never really met him, 1:20:54.040 --> 1:20:56.800 you know, but they were just walking around. It's like 1:20:57.000 --> 1:21:00.560 crazy for new reason, right, So it'll cat we just 1:21:00.600 --> 1:21:03.400 brushed by. You wouldn't say, you know, I remember that cat. 1:21:04.960 --> 1:21:07.759 But you know what, man, listen, man, it's an opinion. 1:21:07.960 --> 1:21:10.120 It's a theory. And I always say everybody got two 1:21:10.200 --> 1:21:13.120 things in the world, asshole and opinion. They both stink, right, 1:21:13.200 --> 1:21:16.280 So you know they're gonna say about you, and this 1:21:16.400 --> 1:21:19.320 is what it is, you know, goddamn it. Now. One 1:21:19.320 --> 1:21:24.280 of these things is um when you like Google, Like, 1:21:24.400 --> 1:21:28.120 you know, you're very successful, man, very very very successful, 1:21:28.720 --> 1:21:33.000 and you don't really wear a lot of jewelry at all. Yeah, 1:21:33.479 --> 1:21:37.920 Like is that purpose or is that because you're just 1:21:37.960 --> 1:21:40.920 not into it? You know, I grew up in that 1:21:41.040 --> 1:21:44.600 world and I wore it a lot, and I loved it. 1:21:45.640 --> 1:21:48.760 I grew up when I saw I used to hear 1:21:48.760 --> 1:21:50.920 it riding to the top playing Supreme Team with the 1:21:50.960 --> 1:21:55.479 walking like you missed a t And I was like, 1:21:55.920 --> 1:21:58.240 I can't wait to be in that world. And I 1:21:58.320 --> 1:22:00.720 work for a long period of time. And then I 1:22:00.800 --> 1:22:04.080 started walking into the other rooms where there was people 1:22:04.120 --> 1:22:09.160 with substantial wealth. We're talking about Mark Cuban talking about 1:22:09.200 --> 1:22:12.360 Bill Gates, and I know this Cuban dressed bumby to 1:22:12.400 --> 1:22:16.639 everybody in this room, pancake battle on and joining everything. 1:22:18.680 --> 1:22:20.720 I walked and I was like, yo, I mean they 1:22:20.840 --> 1:22:23.840 do shoes is curled up, you know, looking like Peter 1:22:23.960 --> 1:22:27.720 Pan joints. And I'm like, and you know what I'm saying, 1:22:27.720 --> 1:22:29.640 I pay a hunted dollar for this watch. And I 1:22:29.800 --> 1:22:34.679 realized that they don't care. They don't care about that stuff, 1:22:35.240 --> 1:22:38.240 you know. I'm yeah, I'm not a lot of rules 1:22:38.240 --> 1:22:41.120 of people. I've been in one room where a lot 1:22:41.160 --> 1:22:43.640 of calfs do we know and may have even more 1:22:43.680 --> 1:22:46.360 money than me, have been talking about how much money 1:22:46.600 --> 1:22:51.040 they spent at a party. When we travel the president, 1:22:51.120 --> 1:22:53.200 you were around a lot of billionaires and you in 1:22:53.479 --> 1:22:55.320 a certain group they don't sayd much they spend on 1:22:55.320 --> 1:22:56.800 the party. They say how much they were able to 1:22:56.880 --> 1:22:59.479 give away this year, And it's way more than the 1:22:59.520 --> 1:23:01.360 cats that was I was talking about hearing on the party. 1:23:01.960 --> 1:23:06.320 I'm talking talking about we raised and gave away five 1:23:06.479 --> 1:23:10.160 hundred million dollars this year. And what we're talking about 1:23:10.160 --> 1:23:13.559 the chain I got on. You know so, because they're 1:23:13.600 --> 1:23:16.000 looking at you and they're saying, how close you know? 1:23:16.240 --> 1:23:19.559 How are you thinking? Because I'm not saying anything better 1:23:19.560 --> 1:23:21.720 than you? They may even say I like what you think. 1:23:21.800 --> 1:23:24.760 And you're younger you in this world? You know when 1:23:24.840 --> 1:23:26.479 when don't we talk about what we could do together? 1:23:28.280 --> 1:23:29.760 You know So, I've just been in different rooms and 1:23:29.880 --> 1:23:34.160 and it just educated me. It's relationships. Um So one 1:23:34.200 --> 1:23:36.680 of the most important things in this game, in the 1:23:36.760 --> 1:23:40.160 game that the relationship is the most important game period period. 1:23:40.280 --> 1:23:42.920 No matter what I told you. The number one reason 1:23:43.000 --> 1:23:46.920 why entrepreneurs failed, the number one reason they succeed is 1:23:47.240 --> 1:23:50.760 they all have a mentor. That's the one that's the 1:23:50.880 --> 1:23:53.679 number one real mentor who is not part of their business. 1:23:54.640 --> 1:23:58.000 Because mentors are gonna do three things. They're gonna tell 1:23:58.000 --> 1:24:00.679 you not to take in capital too soon, they're gonna 1:24:00.680 --> 1:24:03.720 tell you not to spread yourself too thin, take your 1:24:03.800 --> 1:24:06.519 money to can't give you example why in a minute. 1:24:07.280 --> 1:24:09.320 They're gonna tell you not to spread yourself too thin, 1:24:09.680 --> 1:24:12.320 meaning you know, I want to make a thousand different 1:24:12.360 --> 1:24:15.200 styles in my world. And they're also gonna tell you 1:24:15.320 --> 1:24:18.280 not to scale too fast, meaning all right, I gotta 1:24:18.360 --> 1:24:20.040 order for a hundred, but I'm gonna go and buy 1:24:20.080 --> 1:24:23.080 a thousand pieces. Don't jump ahead, don't jump ahead. And 1:24:23.360 --> 1:24:27.960 that's what that's exactly, um what mentors do. Not I 1:24:28.040 --> 1:24:30.040 said something earlier. That's something we get back to one something. 1:24:30.120 --> 1:24:34.840 But the way it huh, first, we're not taking money 1:24:34.880 --> 1:24:37.160 too soon, because I'll show you example another way that 1:24:37.160 --> 1:24:39.439 people go broke. If you want to open. And let's 1:24:39.439 --> 1:24:40.720 say one of you when you guys, I think we 1:24:40.800 --> 1:24:42.599 really like the business. And I said to the guy 1:24:42.680 --> 1:24:44.320 right there, to the eyebrobbins, yo, I'm gonna give you 1:24:44.360 --> 1:24:48.880 fifty tho dollars fiftyent of that business. All right, I'll 1:24:48.920 --> 1:25:13.680 give you gut around. So but let's say let's say 1:25:13.800 --> 1:25:15.519 and I got fifty percent in business. Let's say that 1:25:15.640 --> 1:25:19.040 business he starts to franchise, that license it out, that 1:25:19.080 --> 1:25:21.760 thing he comes to the next to dry ball for males, right, 1:25:22.240 --> 1:25:24.360 and now he's doing a million dollars in business. Now, 1:25:24.439 --> 1:25:26.040 who wants to go and open up a bunch of 1:25:26.080 --> 1:25:29.240 locations or a bunch of software or now and he 1:25:29.439 --> 1:25:35.719 needs four dollars. Now, I ain't giving him a piece 1:25:35.760 --> 1:25:38.680 of my fifty percent that I just got. So now 1:25:38.760 --> 1:25:40.920 you gotta go raised four hundred thousand dollars. And maybe 1:25:40.960 --> 1:25:44.280 that's another before you know that after you keep raising, 1:25:44.320 --> 1:25:46.599 you keep growing, you want five percent of the business 1:25:46.640 --> 1:25:50.320 you work for everybody else, So don't take in capital 1:25:50.400 --> 1:25:57.479 too soon because you're saying that fifty thou already gave 1:25:57.560 --> 1:26:00.960 you fifty percent, so you're taking money. He raised more, 1:26:01.000 --> 1:26:03.479 he's selling more shares more. But if he would if 1:26:03.520 --> 1:26:04.840 he would have went out and just did a hundred 1:26:04.880 --> 1:26:07.599 thousand dollar worth of business over three years and said, listen, 1:26:07.680 --> 1:26:10.200 I need you to help finances or the bank finances, 1:26:10.439 --> 1:26:11.760 he may have been able to go out and get 1:26:11.800 --> 1:26:14.639 a get a three hundred thousand dollar alone at six 1:26:14.720 --> 1:26:18.800 percent interest, not six percent of his company, because you 1:26:18.880 --> 1:26:22.920 already have proof of sales. So these are the things 1:26:23.000 --> 1:26:24.840 that we grew up in the hood. We didn't know. 1:26:25.520 --> 1:26:28.600 We were to our Listen, don't trust the bank. Go 1:26:29.040 --> 1:26:31.599 to the go over to the check cash in place. 1:26:31.760 --> 1:26:33.760 You pay six or eight percent for them to cash 1:26:33.800 --> 1:26:37.639 your check. That's eight percent of your salary. You're getting recovery. 1:26:37.960 --> 1:26:41.519 Cash your check, right, Hide all your money underneath your bed. 1:26:42.520 --> 1:26:45.160 Don't trust anybody with your money. If you would, if 1:26:45.200 --> 1:26:47.880 you would, if you would have buried a hundred thousand 1:26:47.920 --> 1:26:53.160 dollars the nineteen seventy five today and can barely buy 1:26:53.240 --> 1:26:56.240 you a g wagon, right, But if you would have 1:26:56.320 --> 1:26:58.320 taken that money and bought a diamond today, that diamond 1:26:58.320 --> 1:27:01.000 would have been worth two point seven million house. You see, 1:27:01.040 --> 1:27:03.280 money is a depreciating asset. Unless you put it to 1:27:03.360 --> 1:27:06.680 work for you, then you're gonna lose on right. So 1:27:06.800 --> 1:27:08.559 the other thing we talked about, damon the man. These 1:27:08.600 --> 1:27:10.680 are things that the hood is. We grew up, they 1:27:10.680 --> 1:27:13.240 didn't know any better. So you said, you're saying a 1:27:13.360 --> 1:27:16.120 hundred twenty five in the bank is always gonna be 1:27:16.200 --> 1:27:20.040 worth more than a hundred under your bag. Of course, yes, 1:27:20.120 --> 1:27:22.280 because you're gonna get interest in and a hundred twenty 1:27:22.320 --> 1:27:25.559 five dollars that you went and put on a house, 1:27:25.640 --> 1:27:27.519 and now you have a house for three hundred, four 1:27:27.560 --> 1:27:30.040 hundred thousand dollars that something, and the morning you're joined 1:27:30.080 --> 1:27:33.360 that house is about But somebody's paying you thirty two 1:27:33.479 --> 1:27:35.680 hundred a month to stay in that house. Now it's 1:27:35.680 --> 1:27:38.120 gonna make you way more money after you add depreciation 1:27:38.160 --> 1:27:40.160 to it and over the course of the year. You know, 1:27:40.560 --> 1:27:43.120 you know real people who will make a lot of 1:27:43.200 --> 1:27:45.400 money and invest a lot of money. They have other 1:27:45.640 --> 1:27:49.960 people paying for their assets and making a profit off 1:27:50.000 --> 1:27:53.439 of it. Like you're in the real estate as well. 1:27:53.600 --> 1:27:55.400 I'm in the real estate a little bit. Yeah, absolutely. 1:27:55.720 --> 1:27:57.679 You know those are the people who instead of going 1:27:57.720 --> 1:27:59.960 and buying a big house, they buy four small house 1:28:00.040 --> 1:28:03.040 an airbnb or rent them out and then they rent 1:28:03.160 --> 1:28:06.680 the house they staying. They own what they rent out, 1:28:06.760 --> 1:28:08.599 and they rent what they staying so they could write 1:28:08.640 --> 1:28:19.400 that off. He's like, that's what this is, is what 1:28:19.520 --> 1:28:22.920 he's doing. I'm trying to like because I'm trying to 1:28:22.960 --> 1:28:25.960 get these properties in Vegas and Airbnb m just just 1:28:26.040 --> 1:28:28.400 for that, because um Vegas. You know, I actually know 1:28:28.439 --> 1:28:31.720 they were recreational with marijuana. But the thing about it 1:28:31.880 --> 1:28:36.080 is they kind of you can't you can only smoke 1:28:36.160 --> 1:28:41.200 cigarettes indoors and they're not allowing you to smoke uh 1:28:41.479 --> 1:28:45.080 cigars or so I figured, y'all get an Airbnb crib 1:28:45.680 --> 1:28:48.879 and I allow that, like you just just I promoted 1:28:48.960 --> 1:28:51.639 as that, like you can smoke in this crib because 1:28:51.640 --> 1:28:53.439 it's not something I want to ever live in. You 1:28:53.479 --> 1:28:54.880 know what I'm saying, I'm just gonna be out. But 1:28:55.360 --> 1:29:00.519 you just posted child smoking this ship. God, I was 1:29:00.600 --> 1:29:02.960 thinking about even saying this is Norriy's crib. You know 1:29:02.960 --> 1:29:08.360 what I'm saying, like like, yeah, this is Nor's baby, Yeah, 1:29:08.400 --> 1:29:12.519 Norri's crib because you can smoke as much as the 1:29:12.600 --> 1:29:14.760 funk you want. And this motherfucker it should be called 1:29:14.800 --> 1:29:20.719 the cataracts. And now is there anything that you ever wished? 1:29:21.680 --> 1:29:23.920 First off and four before? Because I was like a 1:29:24.200 --> 1:29:27.479 super ending type of question, what did you want? L 1:29:27.680 --> 1:29:31.920 L you guys all relationships standard at this point because good, 1:29:32.040 --> 1:29:35.559 my own, my three partners, my other three partners amazing dudes, 1:29:35.920 --> 1:29:39.000 um and we're like brothers. I met my first I 1:29:39.080 --> 1:29:40.800 met one on when I was six years old. Other 1:29:40.840 --> 1:29:43.560 two I met one out twelve. Um Ella talked to 1:29:43.640 --> 1:29:45.479 him the other day on the phone, and you know 1:29:45.640 --> 1:29:47.559 he was like, YEO, I see the heat on the brand, 1:29:47.760 --> 1:29:50.840 what's up? And I was like, listen, I don't need 1:29:50.920 --> 1:29:53.759 to call on the big guns yet, you know, because 1:29:53.800 --> 1:29:56.960 I know you got to TV shows. You're l cool. 1:29:57.040 --> 1:30:00.600 J Let us get to this point because no matter what, 1:30:00.680 --> 1:30:02.080 no matter what lever are, you still got to prove 1:30:02.080 --> 1:30:04.200 your market. Let's get to this point. Let I follow him, 1:30:04.240 --> 1:30:06.240 get strong enough in this day and eighth, there's gonna 1:30:06.240 --> 1:30:08.600 be a new following. And then if I need to 1:30:08.720 --> 1:30:11.080 call you in, can I call you and don't use that? 1:30:11.760 --> 1:30:15.920 Don't you let me not let me call that. Don't 1:30:15.920 --> 1:30:18.200 put Jordan in the game. Don't put Jordan in the 1:30:18.280 --> 1:30:20.280 game because we're still we're still play in high school game. 1:30:20.360 --> 1:30:21.640 You know, we're still in high school right now. So 1:30:21.720 --> 1:30:25.080 that's really humble of you actually going to talk that way. Well, 1:30:25.200 --> 1:30:27.120 thank god it is. However, let's look at let's look 1:30:27.120 --> 1:30:28.680 at the other side. I can't call him for no 1:30:28.800 --> 1:30:32.320 more papers if you use use this up. Yeah, you know, 1:30:32.479 --> 1:30:34.360 every him where man in my life, everybody will pick 1:30:34.400 --> 1:30:37.720 up the phone for me once I don't come through. 1:30:38.640 --> 1:30:40.720 You're being very helpful people people on the phone for you. 1:30:40.880 --> 1:30:44.400 Five steps now have to mess up the bag. You 1:30:44.439 --> 1:30:47.160 know that's what I'm saying right, because I'm a call 1:30:47.240 --> 1:30:49.920 for something real and I'm a call for it really 1:30:50.000 --> 1:30:51.679 and now I'm at and you know what's gonna happen. 1:30:52.000 --> 1:30:54.360 They're gonna call me back for another favor. On the 1:30:54.400 --> 1:30:56.559 flip side, is there any time you have mess up 1:30:56.600 --> 1:30:59.439 in the bag? Like you you've invested in something that 1:30:59.560 --> 1:31:03.720 didn't and you kept going. Yeah, listen, I am, I 1:31:03.840 --> 1:31:05.519 did keep going. I messed up. I missed it the 1:31:05.560 --> 1:31:08.200 bad a couple of times here and there. Um, but 1:31:08.280 --> 1:31:10.320 thank god the black I I messed up. We had 1:31:10.320 --> 1:31:13.040 already made a lot of money prior in barrious different areas, 1:31:13.760 --> 1:31:16.240 you know. But um, but some of them are calling 1:31:16.280 --> 1:31:18.560 me now, like yo, I got do remember when you 1:31:18.680 --> 1:31:25.439 had that night? You gotta answer that call alright? And 1:31:26.439 --> 1:31:32.880 is it over? Is it worther? Uh? Absolutely? Man. You 1:31:32.960 --> 1:31:35.680 know I questioned myself a lot of times. You know, 1:31:35.760 --> 1:31:38.920 when my first marriage, I got two little to two 1:31:39.000 --> 1:31:41.920 baby girls with the twenty five now and and that 1:31:42.080 --> 1:31:45.560 didn't thank God, right and that didn't go right. But 1:31:45.640 --> 1:31:48.200 because I was working so much on foobu second marriage 1:31:48.240 --> 1:31:50.400 to yeah, yeah, you know, my first marriage and a 1:31:50.439 --> 1:31:51.840 little while and out a little bit you don't give 1:31:52.080 --> 1:31:53.760 you don't give a guy thirty years old a couple 1:31:53.760 --> 1:31:55.280 of million dollars in the bank. You know what I'm saying, 1:31:55.640 --> 1:31:58.360 flying over the Asia and coming over, you have got 1:31:58.439 --> 1:32:03.680 that good. But then I say to myself, if I 1:32:03.800 --> 1:32:05.320 was doing a city job, if I was working in 1:32:05.400 --> 1:32:09.240 red lobster, I still would work like that. I still 1:32:09.400 --> 1:32:12.200 would have felt like I gotta keep going to make 1:32:12.280 --> 1:32:14.720 the best right. So because you can't, I can't keep 1:32:14.720 --> 1:32:17.439 going pull with regretting what happened. So yeah, but but 1:32:17.600 --> 1:32:21.360 is it worth it? Absolutely? Man, God is good. God 1:32:21.400 --> 1:32:27.960 It's got the goods. Now you have bolted horse in 1:32:28.000 --> 1:32:31.120 the cryptocurrency race. What do you need thoughts on that? 1:32:31.320 --> 1:32:33.400 On that whole, I think crypto was gonna come back. 1:32:33.439 --> 1:32:35.080 I think it had a bubble exactly like it was 1:32:35.120 --> 1:32:36.760 going to have a bubble. I think you should buy 1:32:36.760 --> 1:32:39.360 it now. I do think so. I think I think 1:32:39.439 --> 1:32:43.679 it will be a digital currency. Um, But I don't 1:32:43.720 --> 1:32:46.720 think it's like how people said credit cards were that 1:32:47.320 --> 1:32:50.000 when they first start. Yeah, I say, don't bet the 1:32:50.120 --> 1:32:53.040 farm on it. I mean the theory and the theory 1:32:53.080 --> 1:32:57.839 and investing is putting money up whatever you can afford. 1:32:58.760 --> 1:33:02.200 If the money doubles. Take the money off the table. 1:33:02.240 --> 1:33:04.400 So then you're playing with the house is money, and 1:33:04.520 --> 1:33:06.320 if it's affordable. Now, if you feel, I don't know 1:33:06.320 --> 1:33:08.120 where you're sating down training the four thousand or three 1:33:08.200 --> 1:33:11.240 thousand or two thousand, whatever it is, buy a little 1:33:11.240 --> 1:33:13.920 bit of what you can, but make sure it's money 1:33:13.960 --> 1:33:17.240 that you are able to lose. Don't put your last 1:33:17.320 --> 1:33:20.120 on it. You know, how about is a restaurant a 1:33:20.200 --> 1:33:23.880 good business? Have your restaurant is the worst possible business 1:33:23.880 --> 1:33:26.800 to get into. Everybody keeps saying that, and I need 1:33:26.920 --> 1:33:29.640 to understand why have you invested in the restaurant? And 1:33:29.640 --> 1:33:31.280 if I never had? But I worked to Red Loster, 1:33:33.000 --> 1:33:39.200 and I tell you something, my soul everything nothing. I 1:33:39.320 --> 1:33:42.640 got a bottle srimps, You just throw them in the 1:33:42.720 --> 1:33:44.840 guard at the back pool, but beat up the bad 1:33:45.000 --> 1:33:47.879 round pick those bottles, shrimp up something to the Chinese restaurants. 1:33:48.080 --> 1:33:51.920 Don't know, man, waits yourself, redines the shrimp to the 1:33:52.000 --> 1:33:58.479 Chinese restaurant. That was all that was all. I don't 1:33:58.680 --> 1:34:01.600 I don't not mean you do doing I was like this, 1:34:01.880 --> 1:34:03.640 So you know, when you're work in the in the 1:34:03.800 --> 1:34:07.680 in that business, man, it's so many people with your 1:34:07.720 --> 1:34:10.519 hands in your pocket, right, and everybody's not gonna have 1:34:10.560 --> 1:34:12.599 a good experience on how to you know, you can 1:34:12.640 --> 1:34:14.200 make the safe for a hundred different people as a 1:34:14.240 --> 1:34:16.439 hundred different experiences on that. So that's one of the 1:34:16.520 --> 1:34:18.200 people that I was one of the business. If a 1:34:18.280 --> 1:34:23.400 person asks you to recommend you number one business that fails, Wow, 1:34:23.960 --> 1:34:28.439 how about a bar bar right in the same area. Man, 1:34:28.520 --> 1:34:30.479 this is the same but not as bad because you 1:34:30.560 --> 1:34:34.320 don't have all those perishables, room the food. Yeah yeah, 1:34:34.360 --> 1:34:38.200 you can get here on the time you're gonna be there. Yeah, right, 1:34:38.280 --> 1:34:41.200 that that's the question on you know, a bar bar 1:34:41.400 --> 1:34:46.800 is not as bad now like a startup company. H 1:34:47.200 --> 1:34:49.280 what is probably like for a person who wants to 1:34:49.320 --> 1:34:52.200 be an investor, person that has a hunde grand or 1:34:52.280 --> 1:34:56.240 something save they they job money or save whatever money 1:34:56.280 --> 1:35:00.560 they had, got a honey grand, still making money? But 1:35:00.640 --> 1:35:03.000 how does the hunt grant to invest How would you 1:35:03.920 --> 1:35:08.560 recommend that day? Go about? Um, you know, trying to 1:35:09.240 --> 1:35:11.720 live the life that you live. What do you what 1:35:11.800 --> 1:35:14.880 do you do for free today? You get paid off 1:35:16.479 --> 1:35:22.320 and whever that is, educate yourself in that business. So 1:35:22.400 --> 1:35:24.080 if you like, if you if you got a crew 1:35:24.200 --> 1:35:26.240 like us, a friend of people may know you'd like 1:35:26.320 --> 1:35:28.000 to talk ship and blow your brains out like that, 1:35:28.160 --> 1:35:30.439 no problem. You want to do a podcast and people 1:35:30.479 --> 1:35:33.120 gonnau with you or invest in Cannada because that's my 1:35:33.160 --> 1:35:35.360 next thing, because you want to smoke everything. You got 1:35:35.439 --> 1:35:43.720 no right, by the way, he's very right. But that's 1:35:43.760 --> 1:35:45.760 the reason why I invest in companies like I don't 1:35:45.760 --> 1:35:48.160 even invest with like I invest in companies. I don't 1:35:48.160 --> 1:35:51.080 even want to say that thing because my side partner 1:35:51.120 --> 1:35:53.759 on one and then I have my other companing. I couldn't. 1:35:54.080 --> 1:35:58.519 I did not sign a contract again, but I didn't 1:35:58.560 --> 1:36:01.600 want to blow that up that you have like that, 1:36:01.680 --> 1:36:03.559 you know you you blow, you blow, you say, yeah, man, 1:36:03.560 --> 1:36:05.439 I got a business with them, and they're like okay, 1:36:05.720 --> 1:36:09.080 and someone else coming and yeah, you know I've done that. 1:36:09.320 --> 1:36:12.320 I've seen that, like you know what the craziest ship 1:36:12.400 --> 1:36:15.640 in the world is I've done. I can't again, I 1:36:15.680 --> 1:36:18.360 can't say these companies. I've done great business with this 1:36:18.479 --> 1:36:22.200 company for two years, right, but it was d a middleman. Right, 1:36:22.520 --> 1:36:25.639 it was due to middleman and this company, big Hollywood 1:36:25.640 --> 1:36:30.360 company that can't say who that and they contacted me directly. Yes. 1:36:31.680 --> 1:36:35.400 He said, yo, yes, Tod. I said, yo, you know 1:36:35.720 --> 1:36:38.240 I heard you got this different show. So I said yeah, dude, 1:36:38.560 --> 1:36:39.920 And they said we would like to meet with you. 1:36:40.280 --> 1:36:42.320 So I said all right, cool, and this is they're 1:36:42.360 --> 1:36:44.400 a big company. He was like, but we're meeting with you, 1:36:44.560 --> 1:36:47.000 not with these these guys. And I was just like 1:36:48.680 --> 1:36:56.920 I expected that from nickas holy Ship, like I kid, 1:36:56.960 --> 1:36:59.719 you know. I was like, damn, like this is some street. 1:37:01.000 --> 1:37:03.040 Like they're like, yo, you know what we did business. 1:37:03.320 --> 1:37:05.880 They broke you us. That is That's basically what the 1:37:05.920 --> 1:37:09.200 conversation was. They broke you us. We had a successful 1:37:09.680 --> 1:37:13.320 running with them. Now you have something else that we're 1:37:13.360 --> 1:37:16.479 interested in, but we want to deal business directly with you. 1:37:17.040 --> 1:37:20.719 And it was just so it was so mind boy 1:37:21.720 --> 1:37:24.320 bobbling to me because I'm like, that's kind of like 1:37:24.640 --> 1:37:27.120 that's how the streets go, like like if you're sunk 1:37:27.200 --> 1:37:29.120 with me, these guys ut me to you. I don't 1:37:29.120 --> 1:37:32.880 really need these guys. Yeah, losing the connect and they 1:37:32.960 --> 1:37:36.080 did that Hollywood just now. But I would wonder why 1:37:36.120 --> 1:37:38.160 they want to deal directly with you because I would say, well, 1:37:38.200 --> 1:37:40.559 what is the purpose, because I may have to say 1:37:41.080 --> 1:37:43.200 they may go listen, you don't know about all the 1:37:43.200 --> 1:37:45.519 stuff we dealt with with the situation, And I would say, okay, 1:37:46.080 --> 1:37:48.600 or why am I gonna believe you? So let me 1:37:48.640 --> 1:37:50.400 go back to these cats over here. If we do 1:37:50.520 --> 1:37:51.600 a deal, if you don't want to deal with them 1:37:51.640 --> 1:37:53.639 no more, we gotta cut them a little something, something, 1:37:53.720 --> 1:37:56.840 would do something right by them. You gotta find out 1:37:56.880 --> 1:38:01.759 that all the side of no, if they just snakes, 1:38:01.760 --> 1:38:04.760 you be like, nah, yeah, you know what I mean. 1:38:04.920 --> 1:38:07.240 The other side is that they know that they could 1:38:07.280 --> 1:38:09.360 communicate with me, and they felt like I think it 1:38:09.400 --> 1:38:12.679 in the beginning, I was just wild. You know Porto 1:38:12.760 --> 1:38:17.880 Rican black guy that you know smoke sweed and one's 1:38:17.920 --> 1:38:21.719 around with you know, twenty five guys. They don't understand 1:38:21.720 --> 1:38:24.040 that I have a sober life. Yeah, I wake up 1:38:24.040 --> 1:38:27.720 in the morning. And when they didn't realize that, they said, oh, 1:38:27.760 --> 1:38:29.800 we could do with them direct. Yeah, but then they're 1:38:29.800 --> 1:38:32.040 trying to cut the guy out of it's not right, 1:38:32.600 --> 1:38:35.760 It ain't right, yeah right, whatever said it was right now. 1:38:36.200 --> 1:38:37.840 I never said it was like, oh I said it 1:38:37.880 --> 1:38:42.559 was no, no, no, you tell you something. The corporate 1:38:42.640 --> 1:38:51.360 gags all of them are white, way way worse. Should Yeah, 1:38:51.360 --> 1:38:53.000 when I got out of you know, when I got 1:38:53.080 --> 1:38:56.040 out of you know, really dealing with the hook. You know, 1:38:56.240 --> 1:38:59.760 the uh so cat at really measured me when I 1:38:59.880 --> 1:39:04.439 was coming up because in eighty nine where eight eight, 1:39:04.520 --> 1:39:07.320 You're like, yo, I'm gonna start being a designer. They 1:39:07.439 --> 1:39:11.160 was like yo, you're like man, you know, because that 1:39:11.280 --> 1:39:15.400 time designers are usually flamboyant cats didn't want to see this. 1:39:15.520 --> 1:39:17.080 Catch was like, I don't gonna be around these cats. 1:39:18.000 --> 1:39:20.360 When that BIB article came out and said food did 1:39:20.439 --> 1:39:28.840 three hundred and fifty million dollars, this yere there dumberhood dudes, 1:39:28.840 --> 1:39:30.519 was like, yo, we didn't get to get our clothes 1:39:30.560 --> 1:39:33.760 on these Something is trying to escape that world because 1:39:33.800 --> 1:39:38.040 I was never trying to be like that. Yeah, when 1:39:38.040 --> 1:39:39.559 I saw more in the bathroom, when I found out 1:39:39.600 --> 1:39:42.680 the Italian mob was there, I found the triazz is 1:39:42.760 --> 1:39:46.160 over in China. I found out all the gangsters that 1:39:46.240 --> 1:39:47.960 were in that world, I was like, yo, just I'd 1:39:48.040 --> 1:39:50.080 rather go back to the street. This is worse than 1:39:50.120 --> 1:39:52.760 the street. If they don't come at you the same 1:39:52.840 --> 1:39:54.439 way she's doing the street come at you would have gone. 1:39:54.479 --> 1:39:56.640 They come out you and say something. You in that 1:39:56.800 --> 1:40:00.559 world you find out something random, you just already gonna say. 1:40:00.600 --> 1:40:01.920 I'm not gonna say that would happened to me, But 1:40:03.000 --> 1:40:05.280 you got ten million dollars worth of clothes coming in 1:40:05.400 --> 1:40:09.760 for the season. If somebody you know called, you'll be like, yo, 1:40:09.880 --> 1:40:13.160 you won't miss two million dollars worth of those clothes 1:40:13.920 --> 1:40:17.080 on on the water. They're gonna disappear. And I don't 1:40:17.080 --> 1:40:19.759 want you to say nothing. You better call the insurance company. 1:40:20.479 --> 1:40:23.400 I ain't never happened to me, But that's the stuff 1:40:23.479 --> 1:40:28.040 that happens. They control the ports, they control the ports 1:40:28.320 --> 1:40:34.519 the company. It's called organized crime for so the corporate 1:40:34.560 --> 1:40:37.800 gangster is away and a lot of things I found 1:40:37.840 --> 1:40:40.280 out five and ten years later happened. I don't even 1:40:40.320 --> 1:40:43.240 know that the gangster was going on like that, which 1:40:43.280 --> 1:40:45.840 is what we have. This is why you always get 1:40:45.920 --> 1:40:48.080 this guy that comes to the hood that's a real 1:40:48.360 --> 1:40:51.559 official Ja Vinci and real official Gucci. But this ship 1:40:51.680 --> 1:40:54.040 is eighty dollars. I mean, so, how many times in 1:40:54.640 --> 1:40:59.680 the business when they talking about advertising and promotion for 1:41:00.360 --> 1:41:04.479 a record you found on that advertising promotion wasn't a billboy. 1:41:05.080 --> 1:41:08.479 That was somebody had to get kicked off somewhere. Yeah, 1:41:08.520 --> 1:41:11.720 it was terrible. When are you serious? You know even 1:41:11.760 --> 1:41:15.960 I'm gonna tell you something. I never knew the ugly 1:41:16.080 --> 1:41:22.600 truth until a week ago. To the week ago. I know, 1:41:22.680 --> 1:41:27.280 I'm talking about someone emailed me something by my stake 1:41:29.320 --> 1:41:32.160 and I'm talking about the ugly truth was so written 1:41:32.560 --> 1:41:38.719 on it as he was emailing someone trying to blackmail 1:41:38.800 --> 1:41:44.519 someone else and emailed me wrong by my stake. Employed 1:41:44.680 --> 1:41:50.240 our copy and paste, damp motherfucker. I don't knew how 1:41:50.280 --> 1:41:54.439 to copy and pat that moment I copy and pasted 1:41:54.520 --> 1:41:59.800 said oh what Wow? Did it made that noise? Right? 1:42:00.880 --> 1:42:04.120 I was? I was like, oh, ship and I got 1:42:04.240 --> 1:42:06.960 to see like how it was most of the DJs 1:42:07.479 --> 1:42:10.800 that you know that you have integrity for people that 1:42:10.960 --> 1:42:14.680 you think has love and respect for this game. Oh, 1:42:14.760 --> 1:42:17.160 I'm messing up. I funked it up. I was separate 1:42:17.240 --> 1:42:20.360 there alright, bad um, that you have love and respect 1:42:20.439 --> 1:42:23.680 for this game. Um, and when they was on that 1:42:23.800 --> 1:42:26.920 payroll list, that should kind of sucked me up, the 1:42:27.080 --> 1:42:28.800 kind of suck me up. I'm gonna tell you. I'm 1:42:28.800 --> 1:42:33.320 gonna tell you who super impressive. I know I can't 1:42:33.320 --> 1:42:36.439 tell you the list because I might need to pay 1:42:36.520 --> 1:42:40.920 that as well. I mean, but I'm gonna tell you 1:42:41.040 --> 1:42:44.400 the super impressed me. Flex wasn't on need not one 1:42:45.080 --> 1:42:48.040 list at all. Now I'm telling what I was. It 1:42:48.160 --> 1:42:50.960 was three of them, not one. And I'm looking because 1:42:51.000 --> 1:42:54.240 I'm like, you know, I'm expecting when the Flex is 1:42:54.280 --> 1:42:56.519 my man, but still like I'm expecting maybe this is 1:42:56.640 --> 1:42:59.400 false documents. So if it's a false document, you would 1:42:59.520 --> 1:43:02.920 put the guy in there. And he wasn't on. No, No, 1:43:03.360 --> 1:43:06.360 that's impressive. And I was like, you know, Flex has integrity, 1:43:06.479 --> 1:43:08.320 you know, so yeah, this's the end of the day. 1:43:08.680 --> 1:43:10.559 We may call it the hustle it. Maybe it may 1:43:10.640 --> 1:43:14.280 be corporate gangster, but what's going on and when there's 1:43:14.280 --> 1:43:17.160 a lot of money going around, well, any money going around, 1:43:17.720 --> 1:43:20.320 someone's trying to skim it. Somebody somebody trying to skim it. 1:43:21.200 --> 1:43:24.559 Have you ever been like approached to like st Street 1:43:24.640 --> 1:43:27.120 dudes like saying, yo, you know what, could you help 1:43:27.160 --> 1:43:29.720 me with my street clothing line or something like that, 1:43:30.280 --> 1:43:32.160 You mean, like trying to put me into pressure. Yeah, 1:43:33.880 --> 1:43:38.000 because I had already gotten already gotten covered and already 1:43:38.080 --> 1:43:42.280 had the circle around me. And I also never really 1:43:42.360 --> 1:43:45.200 moved like that, you know, I wasn't on that dude. Um, 1:43:46.120 --> 1:43:48.519 so no, but I got a lot of people who 1:43:48.560 --> 1:43:50.200 ask me to help. I'm like, I can't help me, man. 1:43:50.439 --> 1:43:56.479 But but I only had I beat honestly, Oh, probably 1:43:56.720 --> 1:43:59.599 my last twenty five years, I've probably only had two 1:43:59.720 --> 1:44:01.920 or three people that came at me a little sideways. 1:44:02.560 --> 1:44:05.719 And then because I knew a lot of people growing 1:44:05.760 --> 1:44:08.640 up in the streets, some of you know, pull the 1:44:08.720 --> 1:44:10.639 coach him like yo, man, he's good people. He part 1:44:10.680 --> 1:44:13.000 of you know, he family leave alone. So God has 1:44:13.000 --> 1:44:15.439 been really good, you know. And um and and a 1:44:15.520 --> 1:44:17.320 lot of I'd be like a lot of the hood 1:44:17.400 --> 1:44:19.880 had in my back. God bless you know. What's your 1:44:19.920 --> 1:44:23.240 favorite thing about this whole game? If you if you could, 1:44:23.280 --> 1:44:25.280 if you could adolize one thing and just say, you 1:44:25.320 --> 1:44:27.519 know what, if there wasn't for this, just it wouldn't 1:44:27.520 --> 1:44:42.840 be here. I'm just showing people. Um, you know I 1:44:42.880 --> 1:44:44.720 already said, already kind of said man being able to 1:44:44.840 --> 1:44:46.400 influence people. Man. And then we went come to me 1:44:46.640 --> 1:44:50.400 like you thought I've seen you. I didn't, you know. 1:44:50.520 --> 1:44:52.600 I wanted set of my own business. But also like 1:44:52.760 --> 1:44:55.479 I was, I went to the Oscars, the Bandy Fair 1:44:55.720 --> 1:44:57.800 Oscars after party the other day it was a big 1:44:57.840 --> 1:45:02.080 noise for the flaws. Don't you know you have to 1:45:02.120 --> 1:45:06.000 spend that back a little bit for a second. I 1:45:06.080 --> 1:45:07.600 went up there. My name wasn't on the list, but 1:45:08.320 --> 1:45:09.760 my boy and we don't know the chance he know 1:45:09.880 --> 1:45:13.080 everybody and they actually knew what I wasn't, like, you know, 1:45:13.120 --> 1:45:15.000 and I've been told about three times. But every time 1:45:15.080 --> 1:45:17.040 I go up, I'm in the call. I leave the 1:45:17.080 --> 1:45:20.759 window walk because I'm like, you know, so they go sorry, 1:45:20.960 --> 1:45:23.760 you know, you're came like drive off expecting his ride 1:45:23.800 --> 1:45:26.680 walk because you know, like John Travolton and Captain and 1:45:26.760 --> 1:45:29.240 say to jump like everybody. Everybody's in there. It's the 1:45:29.280 --> 1:45:31.960 harder party to get into. But one of the great things. 1:45:32.040 --> 1:45:35.320 I walk into the Oscar Awards or the Vanity Fair 1:45:35.520 --> 1:45:38.599 party afterwards. That means a party that only holds two 1:45:38.720 --> 1:45:41.960 hundred people spit and I don't know so much money, 1:45:42.000 --> 1:45:43.760 you know, I'm not getting because I don't know what 1:45:43.920 --> 1:45:47.679 the funk you're talking about. Book walk in there, Kobe 1:45:47.760 --> 1:45:51.400 and then Jade and Beyonce. I see a Taylor Swift, 1:45:51.520 --> 1:45:53.720 I see all these actors and I'm walking up to that. 1:45:54.080 --> 1:45:57.080 Spike walks in with his with his his his oscar, 1:45:57.479 --> 1:46:00.599 you know this year. I'm talking about the days ago 1:46:01.000 --> 1:46:02.800 and he walk in and I'm like, and some of 1:46:02.840 --> 1:46:06.599 the people you know older, so I love Spiking. I'm like, Yo, Spike, 1:46:06.720 --> 1:46:08.240 you know, let's take this picture, let's get this done 1:46:08.720 --> 1:46:11.920 on this part. I like the what the crazy dudes 1:46:11.960 --> 1:46:14.080 that be in the in the commercial, let mean, will 1:46:14.080 --> 1:46:16.439 be in in a movie like Operating the Fries or 1:46:16.439 --> 1:46:19.000 something like that. But like, yo, I know you. And 1:46:19.080 --> 1:46:20.800 the fun thing is like I woke up to other 1:46:21.400 --> 1:46:24.280 really well known aim lists of everything they'd be like yo. 1:46:25.160 --> 1:46:27.160 Like Katherine Data Drones said to me one time, me 1:46:27.280 --> 1:46:31.640 and Michael Douglas watch your show every night. I'm like 1:46:31.880 --> 1:46:37.280 Wall Street, it's wreckonable, you know what I'm saying. And 1:46:38.200 --> 1:46:41.000 I think that is one of the things that surprised 1:46:41.120 --> 1:46:46.280 me all the time. It's like huge, yo. But it's 1:46:46.320 --> 1:46:49.720 surprising to me because I'm just doing TV, doing what 1:46:49.880 --> 1:46:52.559 I normally do. I'm having a negotiation. I can't put 1:46:52.600 --> 1:46:54.719 words together, I can't harm not I'm not an actor 1:46:54.760 --> 1:46:57.040 and actress. And I walk up to these cats and 1:46:57.040 --> 1:47:01.559 they're like, yo, I know you, but I got an idea. 1:47:01.600 --> 1:47:04.280 That's when I like, I ain't with your I steel 1:47:04.320 --> 1:47:09.080 like movie. That's what it is. Ship man. Let me 1:47:09.160 --> 1:47:11.000 just tell you something, man. I want to tell you 1:47:11.080 --> 1:47:14.720 how how real. Um the homie is right here. I 1:47:14.840 --> 1:47:17.360 happened to come to a party. I've seen them. I 1:47:17.479 --> 1:47:21.000 gave him a five and I said, Yo, man, he said, 1:47:21.000 --> 1:47:22.840 I got here. I don't even think you. Let me. 1:47:22.960 --> 1:47:24.840 Let me finish my sentence, because you already knew what 1:47:24.840 --> 1:47:26.840 I was asking. I was like, Yo, think I got you. 1:47:27.360 --> 1:47:30.400 We exchanged numbers. You're a man of your word, superman 1:47:30.439 --> 1:47:32.120 your world. And let me just tell you something. I've 1:47:32.120 --> 1:47:36.280 been in this game for going on twenty one years. Um, 1:47:36.479 --> 1:47:38.720 anytime I've ever reached out to fool Boo, you guys 1:47:38.760 --> 1:47:41.120 have held me down. Anytime I've reached out the Coolgi, 1:47:41.200 --> 1:47:42.720 you guys have held me down. So I want to 1:47:42.880 --> 1:47:45.840 personally thank you because because not only for you being 1:47:45.880 --> 1:47:47.680 a part of hip hop, but for you holding down 1:47:47.760 --> 1:47:49.920 hip hop because it's it's it's a it's a one 1:47:50.000 --> 1:47:52.800 hand you know, watch the other bo and wash the 1:47:53.240 --> 1:47:56.040 face thing. Because one of the things that I admired 1:47:56.040 --> 1:47:59.040 about when I first saw a fool Boo was the 1:47:59.120 --> 1:48:02.040 fact that I was seeing fooboo like damn that sponsor 1:48:02.120 --> 1:48:05.800 people with videos. Yeah, so you you guys were coming 1:48:05.880 --> 1:48:08.240 in and we're I don't know, I don't know how 1:48:08.320 --> 1:48:09.800 you were doing it, but you guys were getting to 1:48:09.840 --> 1:48:12.519 people to wearing it, and it was it was a 1:48:12.560 --> 1:48:15.240 part of the culture. So the culture had grown together. 1:48:15.920 --> 1:48:18.400 And the thing about it is, uh, what I mean 1:48:18.479 --> 1:48:22.519 by that is the clothing and the music. So I'm 1:48:22.600 --> 1:48:25.439 so proud of your brand. Like I said, we we 1:48:25.640 --> 1:48:28.240 when we when me and E f N this is 1:48:28.880 --> 1:48:31.920 a DJ, I'm you know, a rapper. When we put 1:48:32.000 --> 1:48:33.600 this together, we wanted to say, you know what, we 1:48:33.680 --> 1:48:36.080 wanted to control hip hop. We wanted to control the 1:48:36.280 --> 1:48:38.360 media of hip hop. When people think of hip hop, 1:48:38.439 --> 1:48:40.240 we want to you know what, you hear it from 1:48:40.280 --> 1:48:43.800 two people who who is legitimate to twenty years in 1:48:45.120 --> 1:48:48.120 peace and we wanted to do that. And one of 1:48:48.200 --> 1:48:50.760 our models is we all the fool boo how this 1:48:50.880 --> 1:48:53.599 ship and what I'm saying that that's always the big 1:48:53.720 --> 1:48:56.519 you are and your brothers up all the other three 1:48:56.680 --> 1:48:59.840 and l L and there's quite five when we go, 1:49:00.160 --> 1:49:04.519 we gotta do a documentary about this. But um, I 1:49:04.600 --> 1:49:06.920 want to personally thank you. I want to personally Thank 1:49:06.920 --> 1:49:08.960 you for being a man of your word personally. Thank 1:49:09.000 --> 1:49:12.960 you for everything you did personally. Thank you for uh 1:49:13.960 --> 1:49:17.200 being an inspiration for people to know that you don't 1:49:17.200 --> 1:49:19.439 always have to be in front of the camera, even 1:49:19.479 --> 1:49:21.519 though a part of your job is is in front 1:49:21.560 --> 1:49:24.400 of the camera. But being you know that clothing line, 1:49:24.720 --> 1:49:28.280 being that brand that buying other brands and and and 1:49:28.479 --> 1:49:30.360 showing people that you don't have to be on the 1:49:30.439 --> 1:49:32.519 mic is whatever. You know what I'm saying. You don't 1:49:32.520 --> 1:49:34.519 have to rap, you don't have to wrap you, and 1:49:34.640 --> 1:49:36.439 you don't have the DJ or bi a producer. You 1:49:36.479 --> 1:49:38.880 could be something and be a part of the culture. 1:49:38.960 --> 1:49:41.080 I love the culture, and you're the epitome of that, 1:49:41.240 --> 1:49:43.600 my brother. When people look at the word are entrepreneurs, 1:49:43.840 --> 1:49:47.679 they should see your motherfucking face. I'm calling the dictionary myself. 1:49:48.880 --> 1:49:51.160 They do that, and my brother, I'm so proud to 1:49:51.240 --> 1:49:53.040 know you. I'm so proud for that that you that 1:49:53.160 --> 1:49:55.360 every time I see you, we always smile at each 1:49:55.400 --> 1:49:58.400 other and we're always having fun. And I really appreciate 1:49:58.439 --> 1:50:00.519 the fact that you pulled up. I appreciate my man, 1:50:00.600 --> 1:50:02.519 big homie. And then always every time I see him 1:50:02.520 --> 1:50:05.519 holding me down, I appreciate a foo boo period. I 1:50:05.560 --> 1:50:07.280 appreciate what you did to them for the coach. I 1:50:07.320 --> 1:50:09.920 appreciate shark Tank. I appreciate you're not shutting down my 1:50:09.960 --> 1:50:14.759 sneaking because I'm really serious about my and I appreciate 1:50:14.800 --> 1:50:21.320 you coming to that holding down drink Chap. And just 1:50:21.439 --> 1:50:24.240 so you know, this Saturday, for everybody in the room, 1:50:24.479 --> 1:50:29.920 we got drink Champs. Appreciate your day. From eight to twelve. 1:50:29.960 --> 1:50:31.840 We gotta do eight to twelve, not six to nine, 1:50:32.680 --> 1:50:35.000 eight to twelve this Saturday, not se twelve. We got 1:50:35.120 --> 1:50:40.000 because we got daylight self at six at six, right 1:50:40.080 --> 1:50:43.120 at six six six. So yeah, man, we love y'all, 1:50:43.320 --> 1:50:49.360 Thank y'all, good night. You got, damn it your great interview, 1:50:49.439 --> 1:50:51.080 my friend. Yeah, you got