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Speaker 2: World one of bad Malague Books. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to
Speaker 2: Malik's Book Show, bringing a world together with books, culture
Speaker 2: and community. Hi, my name is Malik, your host of
Speaker 2: Malik's Book Show. Well, I missed last week because I
Speaker 2: wanted you to marinate on band books. That episode came from.
Speaker 1: The heart, deeply from the heart.
Speaker 2: So if you didn't get a chance to listen to
Speaker 2: band books, please do. Because my thoughts are not always
Speaker 2: status quo. I do think outside the box. I do
Speaker 2: think differently, and I have a different perspective. But hey,
Speaker 2: moving on to this episode, I'm going to be discussing
Speaker 2: a few book reviews. One called black a f You
Speaker 2: know what that means as if you see j History Okay,
Speaker 2: the un Whitened Story of America by Michael Harriet.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do a book review on that.
Speaker 2: That title is catching controversial, but I'm more importantly I
Speaker 2: want to know what this book is talking.
Speaker 1: About, and it has a I ain't catching cover. I
Speaker 1: must say. I see words like mediocre, petty, deaf, just rich.
Speaker 2: Human, traffickers, drug smugglers, all that on the front cover
Speaker 2: as well. It's a book that when it first came out,
Speaker 2: it flew off the shelf. My supplies didn't have anymore.
Speaker 2: I had to wait until they got some more people
Speaker 2: called about it. So I want to delve into that
Speaker 2: because it seems like this is interesting topic, particularly at
Speaker 2: a time.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I'm also doing a book review on Renee Watching's new book,
Speaker 2: Ways to Bill Dreams.
Speaker 1: Now, this is the fourth book in the Ryan Hardt series.
Speaker 2: The first book Ways to Make Sunnyshine, then Ways to
Speaker 2: Grow Love, and then Ways.
Speaker 1: To Share Joy.
Speaker 2: So this book weighs the Bill Dreams is the fourth book.
Speaker 1: Of the Ryan Hart story.
Speaker 2: So Renee Watching, Award winning new Boy Honor and Coreta
Speaker 2: Scott King Award winning author and New York Times bestseller
Speaker 2: has a fourth book out and I'm gonna do the
Speaker 2: book review, so stay tuned for that.
Speaker 3: I also need to mention that Renee Watching It's gonna
Speaker 3: be at Malik Books this Tuesday, October twenty fourth, seven
Speaker 3: pm doing a book signing and discussion right at Malik
Speaker 3: Books in the Westfield, Covid City.
Speaker 2: Mall Erica Kendrick, who's also an author. It's gonna be
Speaker 2: doing the moderation. So you got come on out to
Speaker 2: Millie Books in the Westfield, Covi, Citty City, mar this Tuesday,
Speaker 2: October twenty four.
Speaker 1: Seven pm.
Speaker 2: Come out and witness history right here at maliek Book.
Speaker 1: It's all about community.
Speaker 2: Also, I got a guest featured book review to on
Speaker 2: this episode called The Psychology of Money. So we got
Speaker 2: a lot lined up for you on this episode. But
Speaker 2: also want to talk about this weekend because what went
Speaker 2: down in Los Angeles right in the hub was the
Speaker 2: largest streets festival in North America, the United States, and
Speaker 2: it was called the Taste of Soul. It was hosted
Speaker 2: by none other than Danny Batewell, the founder of the
Speaker 2: Brotherhood Crusade and also the owner of the La Sentinel newspaper,
Speaker 2: the oldest black owned newspaper in America. But let me
Speaker 2: say this, this event, this street festival was let it.
Speaker 1: Too over the LA City. We talking about three.
Speaker 2: To four hundred thousand people coming out to celebrate soul.
Speaker 1: That's right. And food and you know we love to eat.
Speaker 4: Black people love to eat, and we can cook because
Speaker 4: we turned some the worst food in America scraps that
Speaker 4: we got doing slavery into soul food. People all over
Speaker 4: the world come eat some of that soul food.
Speaker 1: Like I said, it might not be.
Speaker 2: The healthiest, but boy's delicious, highest the lessious.
Speaker 1: We turned them scraps into gold mine for the belly
Speaker 1: and the mind.
Speaker 2: So, anyway, Taste of Soul, what's taking place right here
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles?
Speaker 1: Listen? It goes all the way.
Speaker 2: It's hosting on Krinshaw from Stocker all the way to
Speaker 2: I believe Collin Sam. So it takes over, you know,
Speaker 2: a large area and it's just festive.
Speaker 1: It's family, it's entertainment, it's.
Speaker 2: Food, food, it's culture, it's gifts, it's books, it's clothing.
Speaker 1: It's excitement, it's drama.
Speaker 2: It's all of that in one and it's grown to
Speaker 2: be the largest festival in America.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: I don't believe there's a larger street festival light Taste
Speaker 2: of Soul if it is, got educate, But right now
Speaker 2: I'm saying the Soul is the largest. And let me
Speaker 2: say this, it was spectack. I got a chance to
Speaker 2: get interview on k Kyle nine News for the festival
Speaker 2: two days in a row, and I'm gonna feature that
Speaker 2: as well. It's only a few minutes, but they came
Speaker 2: to Milite Books in the ball and Hills Crenshaw Mall
Speaker 2: and did an interview about the festival and but most
Speaker 2: importantly about Milite Books and what we do. So I'm
Speaker 2: gonna feature that on this episode as well. But when
Speaker 2: I was setting up that morning on well, let me
Speaker 2: say this, let me let me rewind because I'm skipping.
Speaker 2: See what happened was they did. I did the interview
Speaker 2: and I brought so much passion. I brought so much
Speaker 2: energy in them two minutes that they would look the
Speaker 2: news reporters at the state because it was live. So
Speaker 2: she became to malif Books interviewed me live, but in
Speaker 2: the studio there were two other morning hosts for the
Speaker 2: morning show on KKW News.
Speaker 1: They were all I love his passion, I love his energy.
Speaker 2: That spiraled into the weather man talking about whoo higg.
Speaker 2: Probably it'd be good for the racers really come up
Speaker 2: here and do the weather because I was so in
Speaker 2: a jetty So that was nice. That was nice to hear.
Speaker 2: And that brings me back to why even have this
Speaker 2: podcast because of the fact that I was doing those
Speaker 2: book reviews for Ryan Seacrest, and he was like, man,
Speaker 2: I love your passion and so forth, and it spent
Speaker 2: off into what a podcast talking about books? So all
Speaker 2: I'm saying is, you know, it's a saying that when
Speaker 2: when a person tell you something, take it with a
Speaker 2: grain of salt. But when two people say the same thing,
Speaker 2: maybe pay attention a little bit more.
Speaker 1: But when three people say the.
Speaker 2: Same thing that don't talk to you, don't know each other,
Speaker 2: you better know that they are probably hitting the hammer
Speaker 2: on the nail about you or something.
Speaker 1: And let me say this. I get this all the time.
Speaker 2: People say, man, you got energy, Man, you got I
Speaker 2: see you got a passion for books and so forth.
Speaker 1: But that's all right, ended up with the podcast.
Speaker 2: Because that's what you know, Ron Secrets and his team,
Speaker 2: that's what they thought that I had value liked about
Speaker 2: me when I was doing the book review. So hey,
Speaker 2: other people are saying the same thing. They say, man,
Speaker 2: you're passionate about these books. You're passionate about this and
Speaker 2: you bring a lot of energy. And that's what they say.
Speaker 2: That k Kyle so much that the next day I'm
Speaker 2: on site. I'm out this sideurday setting up the book
Speaker 2: mobil was outset at the Priest Thanks the Soul.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: I had the book mobile brought thousands of books out.
Speaker 1: There for the community.
Speaker 2: I ain't giving away this time, but hey, we were
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Speaker 2: So anyway back to K Kyle wrote up on me
Speaker 2: because they was doing a set out there live, I
Speaker 2: mean live for the you know, for the Taste of Soul.
Speaker 1: So they had a studio set up right almost close
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 2: So representative that set the interview up for Friday came
Speaker 2: up to me and said, Hey, Malik, would you like
Speaker 2: to be on the K Kyle News this morning. We'd
Speaker 2: love to have you on and bring that energy and
Speaker 2: talk about the books and so forth. And I said
Speaker 2: absolutely absolutely, thank you for the opportunity. So at nine
Speaker 2: o'clock I went over there to the K Kyle studio
Speaker 2: on set at the Taste of Soul.
Speaker 1: I got my opportunity to be.
Speaker 2: On stage with what the historic and icon of sport,
Speaker 2: Jim Heill and.
Speaker 1: The Newswoman Who's Award.
Speaker 2: Winning Pat Harvey and Chauncey was also there as well.
Speaker 2: I got a chance to be on the stage with
Speaker 2: three icons on K Kyle News and they interviewed me
Speaker 2: right on the spot, no script. That's when I come strong,
Speaker 2: That's when I come from the heart, and that's when
Speaker 2: I turn on Elak two point zero on the stage
Speaker 2: with K Kyle News dropping my insight about books, about
Speaker 2: community and about culture. So I'm just grateful and thankful,
Speaker 2: Din they sow value in my passion, They so value
Speaker 2: and my energy about books.
Speaker 1: You know, we're competing against.
Speaker 2: So many distractions. Somebody gotta make books hype. Somebody got
Speaker 2: to make books come alive.
Speaker 1: That's what I do. That's what I bring to this.
Speaker 2: I make books fun, exciting, refreshing.
Speaker 1: This is what I'm good at.
Speaker 2: I know I'm good at because everybody keep coming to
Speaker 2: the store and telling me that man, you.
Speaker 1: The heype man of the books.
Speaker 2: Well, hey, I guess I was born to be good
Speaker 2: at something, and that's one of the things I'm good at.
Speaker 1: My too many things, But one thing I do.
Speaker 2: I bring the height, the passion, the energy to our young,
Speaker 2: to our youth.
Speaker 1: And to the adults about the world of books.
Speaker 2: Malik's books bringing a world together with books, culture and community.
Speaker 1: The heype man of books. That's right, Malik Mohammed.
Speaker 2: So stay tuned for this episode where I'm doing featuring
Speaker 2: three book reviews.
Speaker 1: So stay tuned. Boy, old boy, Old boy.
Speaker 2: There's this book steamy, controversial, thought provoking, unreal. I don't
Speaker 2: even know how they even published such a book that
Speaker 2: will be considered a book you'll find in mainstream bookstores.
Speaker 2: You know, I know all too well about having books
Speaker 2: in my store that couldn't be found in mainstream bookstores.
Speaker 1: But this was produced by a.
Speaker 2: Mainstream publisher and it's way more controversial.
Speaker 1: Than the sixteen nineteen projects. The book is called Black
Speaker 1: af History. You know what the AF stand for.
Speaker 2: Right, The un Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriet,
Speaker 2: whoa say, I love nonfiction books and I love books
Speaker 2: to think outside the box. Were living in the age,
Speaker 2: And I just did my episode on bad books the
Speaker 2: following episode episodes, So if you ain't listening to that,
Speaker 2: go back and listen to my episode band book.
Speaker 1: Listen. This book is.
Speaker 2: Definitely gonna be banned from being in public schools, probably
Speaker 2: some colleges or what have you. Definitely gonna be censored
Speaker 2: because that's the age that we end. Unfortunately, freedom make
Speaker 2: speech is not freedom of speech. And this book Black
Speaker 2: af History is going to be banned, but I recommend
Speaker 2: reading it.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you why, because if two people.
Speaker 2: See a car accident, you're gonna have two different versions
Speaker 2: of that accident.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Well, it's time that this country, America see black version
Speaker 2: of our history, a black version of our history.
Speaker 1: This is what this Council.
Speaker 2: Culture and critical race theory, all of this is all about.
Speaker 2: It stirred around is that their oppressor, the enslaver, the
Speaker 2: slave master, White people have written history books that have
Speaker 2: told stories that were lies about Black people and have
Speaker 2: misrepresented our character, our history, and our beliefs. And what's
Speaker 2: happening is Black people are now elevating their voice to
Speaker 2: write the stories correctly based upon our way that we
Speaker 2: see in this book Black af History is trying to
Speaker 2: do just that, bring a different and refreshing truth to
Speaker 2: the devil.
Speaker 1: That's right. There are different truths. People say, oh, it's
Speaker 1: on the web, No it's not.
Speaker 2: Your truth is based upon the people write the history
Speaker 2: are what history. It ain't always based on truth, but
Speaker 2: it's based upon what they think and feel emotionally, what
Speaker 2: they should tell their readers and so forth. This book
Speaker 2: got facts that set the record straight, painstaking facts that
Speaker 2: Michael Harry was able to dig up to write the
Speaker 2: wrongs in history and put the truth about it. Listen,
Speaker 2: America history is Black history. I've said that many times.
Speaker 2: You cannot talk about the greatness of America if those
Speaker 2: who like to say American great, and it is without
Speaker 2: talking about the greatness of Black people.
Speaker 1: Even though we weren't slaved.
Speaker 2: Our ingenuity, our science, our math has allowed this country
Speaker 2: to thrive and grow. Our athletes have upheld the flag
Speaker 2: of America and won gold medals in world championship that
Speaker 2: have given the spirit of America and greatness of America
Speaker 2: all over this world. There is no American history without
Speaker 2: Black history. And Black history didn't start with no slavery.
Speaker 1: End. That's one of the lies that America has taught
Speaker 1: for centuries.
Speaker 2: And they taught that black people didn't accomplish and do nothing,
Speaker 2: that we was running in the jungle with a bone
Speaker 2: in our nose and didn't do anything, and that we
Speaker 2: were only made to be civilized by bringing us to.
Speaker 1: Hard labor and enslave men and reduce the property.
Speaker 2: And people say, why always talk about race, like Michael
Speaker 2: Heros said, Michael Harris said, you wrote a constitution based
Speaker 2: on race.
Speaker 1: Let's start there.
Speaker 2: You wrote a constitution that talks about the race. How
Speaker 2: you gonna talk about the sickness and the illness and
Speaker 2: the issues in America if you're not dealing with race.
Speaker 1: It's all about race. Unfortunate me.
Speaker 2: Now there is a solution, but it's painful, and it
Speaker 2: seems to me that white people don't want to deal
Speaker 2: with the pain to rewrite the history and the.
Speaker 1: Wrongs that happen.
Speaker 2: It ain't about dwelling in the past. It's about how
Speaker 2: we move forward today. And this book Black af History
Speaker 2: is setting the record straight so we can move forward.
Speaker 2: But it's painful to those who want to hold on
Speaker 2: to white supremacy.
Speaker 1: It lies of the past and.
Speaker 2: Don't want to recognize the glory and the greatness of
Speaker 2: black people that have made this country what it is today,
Speaker 2: that have helped elevate.
Speaker 1: This country all over the world.
Speaker 2: For in every war, which I don't think that was
Speaker 2: wise because you didn't have food, shelter, and clothing, and
Speaker 2: you was relegated to enslave me or or discrimination practices.
Speaker 2: But yet black people wanted to prove themselves in work
Speaker 2: and thought, in every walk in.
Speaker 1: America, to help this country.
Speaker 2: Acquire the power and the might and the greatness, and
Speaker 2: yet have to come home and be called they're in
Speaker 2: work and discriminated against, and do not access the funds
Speaker 2: in college and money and deal with all the illments
Speaker 2: and white supremacy. After the centuries of proven ourselves to
Speaker 2: this nation, people don't want our story to be told
Speaker 2: and want to be and ban our story and keep
Speaker 2: it from white kids. Because we're waking up, because we're
Speaker 2: standing strong, because we're elevating our voice, because books like
Speaker 2: Black ape F History, The un White Wife Story of America,
Speaker 2: written by Michael Harriet, has come out to tell the
Speaker 2: truth about the lies that have permeenated for centuries in
Speaker 2: this common People say, oh, I don't believe in conspiracy.
Speaker 2: Well I don't either, but I know they're true when
Speaker 2: two or more people get together and conspire against a
Speaker 2: group of people.
Speaker 1: You telling me that didn't happen in America. Tell me
Speaker 1: how all.
Speaker 2: These millions and millions of white people in America.
Speaker 1: Believe that black people did.
Speaker 2: Nothing, didn't accomplish nothing historically around this planet. How is
Speaker 2: that possible that in the eighteen hundreds, in the nineteen hundred,
Speaker 2: or go back to the seventeen hundreds and the sixteen
Speaker 2: and the fourteen hundreds, they know about ancient Egypt and
Speaker 2: black people building, that they knew that we were builders
Speaker 2: and scientists.
Speaker 1: And engineers, and that we were.
Speaker 2: Just the Mores in Spain who ruled seven hundred years
Speaker 2: while the Europe was in the Dark Ages, the Moors
Speaker 2: in Spain elevated Europe. Spain wasn't dark, Spain didn't go
Speaker 2: to no medieval age. Spain was the light. All the
Speaker 2: teens that ruler centering their kids to Spain to be
Speaker 2: educated because of the black people in Spain bringing art, literature, math,
Speaker 2: and science. So by the fourteen ninety two, because the
Speaker 2: Morris Spain I was in the seventeen hundred AD, by
Speaker 2: fourteen ninety two Christmas Columbus left America.
Speaker 1: White people was well aware of the historic and manumitus.
Speaker 2: Civilizations that black people had brought to the world and
Speaker 2: our engineerity and mathematics. Yet we go all the way
Speaker 2: to America and they teach for centuries that black people
Speaker 2: didn't do nothing, didn't add no value, that we were
Speaker 2: jungle buddies, and they civilized us with slavery.
Speaker 1: Then what they taught to justify.
Speaker 2: Only for us to find out decades and centuries later
Speaker 2: all lies, all lies. So people say, oh, because I
Speaker 2: don't believe that was a conspiracy that could keep the
Speaker 2: truth from black people and white people. That black people
Speaker 2: were mighty, were kings and queens that were the fathers
Speaker 2: and mothers of humanity and civilization that brought light to
Speaker 2: the world engineering and science and art and literature. They're
Speaker 2: black people and they teaching in their secret society, you know,
Speaker 2: like masonry, like in the Shriners.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they teach that history, but it's keptain secret and hitting.
Speaker 2: So when you talk about conspiracy, how that's a conspiracy
Speaker 2: that you connied in you scripture in the Bible to
Speaker 2: enslaver and make us feel that we didn't do anything
Speaker 2: when we were the people and who were the prophets
Speaker 2: and messengers of a God and teaching the world about
Speaker 2: God and history all throughout Europe and the annals of time.
Speaker 2: And yet there are no conspiracy.
Speaker 1: Oh, there're plenty.
Speaker 2: And this miseducation that has affected black people, it's a
Speaker 2: major part of it that have kept history and truths
Speaker 2: from not only black people, from white America. Thank you
Speaker 2: Michael Harry for writing a book Black af History, the
Speaker 2: un white wished story of America to stand firm and
Speaker 2: strong and elevating the truth and our voice.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Pick up this copy because you need to read it
Speaker 2: as well. The whole world need to read books so
Speaker 2: that we can now truly come together based on truth
Speaker 2: not falsehood. So pick up a copy at miliebooks dot
Speaker 2: com or wherever books are sold.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Renee Watson. Let me say that name again,
Speaker 1: because she's a Newbery.
Speaker 5: Honor and Correttit Scott King Award witting author and she's
Speaker 5: gonna be at Malik Books this Tuesday, October twenty fourth
Speaker 5: at the Westfield location at seven pm.
Speaker 2: Now, this book review is her new book called Ways
Speaker 2: to Build Dreams. This is a Ryan Hart series that
Speaker 2: she had put together and it's the fourth book in
Speaker 2: the series. The other additional books are called Ways to
Speaker 2: Make Sunshine, Ways to Grow Love, and Ways to Share Joy.
Speaker 2: Now and this Ryan Heart character is you know, a
Speaker 2: person that's about to go to middle school. So this
Speaker 2: book is a book written for I will say third
Speaker 2: to sixth graders.
Speaker 1: But the interesting part is a beautiful.
Speaker 2: Young brown skinned black girl with natural hair who's navigating
Speaker 2: you know, elementary before she gets to middle school. And
Speaker 2: it has all the bells of whis the young kids
Speaker 2: go through while they're in elementary and this young lady,
Speaker 2: Ryan Hart is very near to deer to Renee watch
Speaker 2: it because it's a real character. Story might be a
Speaker 2: little fictionized but relatable, but it's someone near and deer
Speaker 2: to Renee watching because I believe it's one of her godchild.
Speaker 2: But Ryan Hart, it's a character that a lot of
Speaker 2: kids and the elements you can relate to. And his
Speaker 2: fourth one is the last journey before she hits off
Speaker 2: the middle school. What you Know is a challenge and
Speaker 2: a transition for a lot of kids. But Ways to
Speaker 2: Build Dreams is out. Renee Watson is gonna be at
Speaker 2: the League Books. She's gonna be doing a book discussion
Speaker 2: moderated by Kendred Rika Kendrid and.
Speaker 1: Followed by a book Sonny So, the character Roan Hart in.
Speaker 2: The book Ways to Share Dream brings all of the
Speaker 2: books all together, bringing all the sunshine, the love, the.
Speaker 1: Joy and dreams. You know, Ryan Hart is moving on
Speaker 1: to middle school.
Speaker 2: The following year, so she has to dream about what's
Speaker 2: the next steps in her life, and so she doesn't
Speaker 2: know anything about this new school and the new friends
Speaker 2: that she has to make.
Speaker 1: So this is a book. This is a refreshing because these.
Speaker 2: Are challenges that a lot of kids can relate to,
Speaker 2: and because they all go through this when they move
Speaker 2: from one grade level to the next, particularly when they
Speaker 2: have to change schools. So the Ryan Harsh series, it's
Speaker 2: just a book that Hey brings out all the love,
Speaker 2: the shine, the joy that goes into kids as they
Speaker 2: evolve and move on to the next chapter in their life.
Speaker 1: Bring up your copy of Ways to Build.
Speaker 2: Dreams at Molikue books dot Com or anywhere with books
Speaker 2: or so.
Speaker 1: Hey, Hey, pride you doing. I'm good, good, good good.
Speaker 2: Well Hey, you've been reading this book, Psychologist Money, tell
Speaker 2: us all about it.
Speaker 6: This is a great read for all ages. Well, I
Speaker 6: would think it would be a great read for fourteen
Speaker 6: and up only because it allows you to see different
Speaker 6: relationships with money and how you can progress with money
Speaker 6: at a younger age versus at an older age. It's
Speaker 6: much harder to do it when you're older, versus if
Speaker 6: you're taught how to do it when you're younger. Now,
Speaker 6: who's the author this book, Morgan Howsel.
Speaker 1: And what's the complete title of this.
Speaker 6: Book, The Psychology of Money, Timeless Lesson on Wealth, Greed
Speaker 6: and Happiness.
Speaker 2: Why did you pick this book to read and tell
Speaker 2: our audience what is the highlight of the book.
Speaker 6: Well, I picked this book because I myself is in
Speaker 6: the process of getting and learning a relationship, a new
Speaker 6: relationship with money, and I thought that this book would
Speaker 6: be a great read for people that is, you know,
Speaker 6: trying to understand their personal relationship with money on decisions
Speaker 6: on how they spend their money, what they spend their
Speaker 6: money on. It is according to how you would raised
Speaker 6: majority of the time.
Speaker 1: And this is what the book is talking about.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, it's all in the relationship that you personally
Speaker 6: have with money, how you save your money, how you
Speaker 6: spend your money?
Speaker 1: What? What? What?
Speaker 2: What? Well, just give us some more highlights about this
Speaker 2: book about the psychology of money.
Speaker 6: Well, he goes over a lot of things. He goes
Speaker 6: on over like the Great Depression, he goes off, he's
Speaker 6: he does a lot of name dropping, like there's a
Speaker 6: gentleman in here named Jesse, and there's a gentleman in
Speaker 6: here named Abraham. They have similar relationships with Bunny. This
Speaker 6: chapter was named getting Wealthy and stand Wealthy is two
Speaker 6: totally different things, which is true. How he explained, it
Speaker 6: was the great depression that happened. They called it on
Speaker 6: Wall Street, the Black Black Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. And
Speaker 6: on this one particular day. This day changed a lot
Speaker 6: of people like but with these two particular characters, it
Speaker 6: changed your life. One Jesse bet that the stops would
Speaker 6: go down, and Abraham bet that the stops would go up,
Speaker 6: and that particular day changed both of their lives. Unfortunately,
Speaker 6: Abraham lost everything. He was a great real estate investor,
Speaker 6: and Jesse he gained. He was he became one of
Speaker 6: the richest persons at a young age because of that
Speaker 6: that that bet he against you bet against uh Wall
Speaker 6: Street at the stock market. But look four years later,
Speaker 6: four years later, mister Jesse, you know, his relationship with
Speaker 6: money showed up because he kept betting higher, making higher
Speaker 6: risk against the money that he had, and not four
Speaker 6: years later he lost everything. He lost everything.
Speaker 1: I would have just tapped out, man, I mean, how
Speaker 1: much is enough?
Speaker 6: Oh no, that's one of them two uh some people
Speaker 6: For some people, enough it's just not enough for some people. Enough,
Speaker 6: it's just not enough.
Speaker 1: And there's some things in this book that talk about
Speaker 1: warm Buffett.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, they Warren Buffett that we only see warm
Speaker 6: Buffet today. But people don't know Warm Buffett had you know,
Speaker 6: I guess you can't. I don't say. I guess he
Speaker 6: had people in his life that had him understanding money
Speaker 6: at an early age. He started saving and investing when
Speaker 6: he's fourteen years old. He didn't become a he didn't
Speaker 6: become a multi million until he was fifty. People don't
Speaker 6: understand and know that. They just see warm Buffett as
Speaker 6: today as a great investor. And with investing, you take
Speaker 6: a lot of risk. It's a lot of risk and
Speaker 6: a lot of loss. And people that invest and become
Speaker 6: these successful people and success don't always have to be
Speaker 6: a warm Buffet. That's what this book is selling. You
Speaker 6: do not have to be a warm Buffett. To be successful.
Speaker 6: Is your relationship with money, it's your success.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people we know warm Buffett
Speaker 2: as the being there of today, but I'm sure they
Speaker 2: ain't start out that way.
Speaker 6: Correct, That's what he was saying, We only see warm
Speaker 6: buff am who else Warren Buffett, he was talking about Apple,
Speaker 6: he was talking about Geicole. All these names didn't start
Speaker 6: up as that of today. It's all in relationship and
Speaker 6: history and how you view money and risk.
Speaker 2: Is this book dealing with, you know, suggesting and dealing
Speaker 2: with the psychology of money? At what age does it
Speaker 2: suggest that kids should know about the psychology of money?
Speaker 6: I said fourteen. I said fourteen only because they said
Speaker 6: fourteen for Warren buck Buffett. I said fourteen because if
Speaker 6: you teach your kids now, save a quarter of your dollar.
Speaker 6: If you're at fourteen, you keep doing that, and you
Speaker 6: double or triple. You just never know what they could
Speaker 6: have when they become adults and how they view money.
Speaker 6: Money is something that we view as something else. We
Speaker 6: spend and we do things.
Speaker 2: What tips in here that it gives in order in
Speaker 2: terms of of you know, investing and saving in the
Speaker 2: psychology behind you know, your investments in money.
Speaker 6: Well, that's what I was getting at. If you for me,
Speaker 6: I wasn't raised with a relationship with money. The relationship
Speaker 6: I have with money I have to gain that over time.
Speaker 6: And everybody's psychology is not the same. Everybody's psychology with
Speaker 6: money is not the same relationship with money is not
Speaker 6: the same. So if you embed into young young ones early,
Speaker 6: it helped them understand the relationship, which is the psychology
Speaker 6: of how you look at things with money, will help
Speaker 6: them along the way.
Speaker 2: Financial literacy with our kids and our youth should start early.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, it should start very early for teens. If it doesn't,
Speaker 6: it's never too late.
Speaker 2: So for teens and adults, this book Psychology and Money, you.
Speaker 6: Recommend absolutely, especially today with the social media. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 6: I recommend this book.
Speaker 2: Is there any other highlights that you would like to
Speaker 2: talk about and to speak on?
Speaker 6: No, I think I said the gist of it of
Speaker 6: the book.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I think you've done a fabulous job and
Speaker 2: a wonderful job.
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