Speaker 1: I'm Tamika D.
Speaker 2: Mallory and it shit Boy my Son in general.
Speaker 1: We are your host of TMI.
Speaker 2: T Mika my Son's Information, Truth, Motivation and.
Speaker 1: Inspiration, New Energy. What's going on, my Son, Lennon.
Speaker 2: It is twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: I am feeling beautiful because this is the year of execution?
Speaker 1: Is that what you're how you're claiming that's so.
Speaker 2: I'm claiming it.
Speaker 3: Like you know, I woke up this morning, well, I
Speaker 3: woke up on New Year's and I said to myself,
Speaker 3: I'm tired of the New Year's resolution and we're going
Speaker 3: to be all at And I've realized my biggest problem
Speaker 3: is execution, right is that I have so many ideas.
Speaker 3: I have so many things I want to do, and
Speaker 3: I'll start and I think a plan, and then somebody
Speaker 3: don't give me the energy that I want, so I
Speaker 3: don't do it. Or I come to people and they
Speaker 3: don't feel like they don't you know, like they don't
Speaker 3: feel enthused about it, and I don't execute fully. I'm like,
Speaker 3: I'm not doing that, no more, like no more. This
Speaker 3: year right here, I'm executing every idea and plan that
Speaker 3: I have because especially when I'm believe in it.
Speaker 2: So this is the year of execution for me.
Speaker 4: You know what, when I listen to you say that,
Speaker 4: it's kind of like one of the I hear one
Speaker 4: of the challenges in what you just said, and that
Speaker 4: is I'm executing every single plan, and every single plan
Speaker 4: never gets executed by anybody. What we have to do
Speaker 4: is prioritize of the things because we're very creative individuals.
Speaker 4: And so if I said I'm going to execute every
Speaker 4: single plan that it comes to my mind, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying every idea I'm talking about plan.
Speaker 3: Once I make a plan and I say boom boom boom,
Speaker 3: I'm doing this and doing this, then it's going to
Speaker 3: be fully executed because I have a thousand ideas, and
Speaker 3: every idea is just you know, sometimes you come to
Speaker 3: somewhere I got idea, and they don't go nowhere.
Speaker 2: You forget it.
Speaker 3: But once I make a plan that I it's went
Speaker 3: past the idea and now it's a plan I'm executing.
Speaker 2: When lose a drawer, it's going to get executed.
Speaker 1: And I think that.
Speaker 4: I see because first of all, you have executed a
Speaker 4: lot of things, and you've been able to bring certain
Speaker 4: concepts from start to finish for many years that we've
Speaker 4: been working together, and so I don't want you to
Speaker 4: think like, you know, you don't get these things done,
Speaker 4: because you actually do, and you keep the team moving
Speaker 4: in ways that we all kind of get things done together.
Speaker 4: I mean, even being at the place with this podcast
Speaker 4: that we're at today has a lot to do with
Speaker 4: execution and you being the driving force for making this happen.
Speaker 4: So I think that's important to say. I would say
Speaker 4: that I don't I think execution is a.
Speaker 1: Part of the issue.
Speaker 4: But if I had to give you advice for twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five and what you would need to do in
Speaker 4: order to execute execute is to follow up and to
Speaker 4: pay attention to your messages to people who are out
Speaker 4: to you, to get back to people, and to stay
Speaker 4: in tune with the work, because that I think is
Speaker 4: one of the biggest problems for all of us, and
Speaker 4: I certainly see it when it comes to a lot
Speaker 4: of the men that I work with, that the world
Speaker 4: is coming at you and you're trying to respond to
Speaker 4: so much as crazy things going on online you got,
Speaker 4: you know, you're trying to balance out and make sure
Speaker 4: you teach and all of that. Meanwhile, the role to
Speaker 4: actually being successful and the programs is embedded in your team,
Speaker 4: and you have to nurture those relationships to the point
Speaker 4: that every day you're talking to your team more than
Speaker 4: you talking to people on the internet that you don't know.
Speaker 4: That is what will make the difference in terms of execution.
Speaker 1: That's my opinion.
Speaker 4: I think that's I don't think your area of problem
Speaker 4: is not executing. I think that you have to reduce
Speaker 4: the amount of time that you talk to the unknown
Speaker 4: and spend more time talking to the known.
Speaker 2: Well, I just think I need to reduce who's talking
Speaker 2: so I hear what.
Speaker 1: You're saying, but it's not you do you do?
Speaker 4: You have to talk to people because the only way
Speaker 4: to be able to get folks because people everybody has
Speaker 4: a million things going on. So when you go to
Speaker 4: somebody and you say, hey, I think we should do
Speaker 4: such and such thing, that's true, we should do it, right,
Speaker 4: but we all have.
Speaker 1: Fifty million things going on.
Speaker 4: The next thing is an email that's like, hey, you know,
Speaker 4: I think we should do X y Z. Here's the
Speaker 4: stuff that needs to happen. Blah blah blah blah blah. Okay, now,
Speaker 4: I'm setting up a conference call so that we could
Speaker 4: talk about and break down all the pieces. Who's responsible
Speaker 4: for what. That's an execution plan, if you will. It's
Speaker 4: not so much that people are not excited about it
Speaker 4: is that we as leaders have to bring our people
Speaker 4: along in the process because nobody, not you, nor I,
Speaker 4: nor anybody else is going to get it all done
Speaker 4: alone but people. And that's something that I've learned as
Speaker 4: I have been a manager of multiple teams and I've
Speaker 4: had staff working for me for a long time. Folks
Speaker 4: are only going to work at your ideas or your
Speaker 4: concepts as much as you feed into them.
Speaker 3: And that's what I mean. So it's about executors like
Speaker 3: understanding what it takes to execute. Like like you said,
Speaker 3: if understanding that all right, there's a team project that
Speaker 3: I want to happen, I'll bring into the team right
Speaker 3: knowing that, Okay, now I have to build division.
Speaker 2: I have to create division because they like, oh okay, cool.
Speaker 3: But like you said, it's a lot of things that
Speaker 3: everybody has going on, So now I have to do
Speaker 3: the necessary steps that it takes to get everybody on board. Maybe,
Speaker 3: like you said, it might be a call, it might
Speaker 3: be responding to the text saying, hey, lookten, this is
Speaker 3: more send an email out whatever it is. I'm going
Speaker 3: to make sure that these things are executed because the
Speaker 3: thing about it is that the plans that I have,
Speaker 3: most of the ideas that I have, I watch come
Speaker 3: to fruition with other people, people that just take with
Speaker 3: you and they steal what you say. You give an
Speaker 3: idea and they steal it and they run with it,
Speaker 3: and they don't do as good as a job, but
Speaker 3: they actually get something done out of it, and people, oh,
Speaker 3: this is and I'd be like, that was my whole
Speaker 3: plan and my idea. So if I if I don't,
Speaker 3: you know, if I don't execute on a plan, I
Speaker 3: can't be mad at somebody else who sees the idea
Speaker 3: and takes it and runs with it. So now my
Speaker 3: whole thing is this year right here. I know there
Speaker 3: are a lot of ideas, Like it's about five or
Speaker 3: six things that I know that should have already been
Speaker 3: executed that you know that can be monumental and historical.
Speaker 3: So it's like, I'm going to execute those plans.
Speaker 5: I believe you to.
Speaker 4: One of the things that I know about you is
Speaker 4: when you say you're gonna do something, you do it,
Speaker 4: and that's a real thing. That's the one thing I
Speaker 4: will say is that whether you drive us crazy while
Speaker 4: doing it, you say, oh, we're gonna do YouTube, and
Speaker 4: every Sunday I gotta hear from you. Tag the tag it,
Speaker 4: tag it, push it out.
Speaker 1: Why didn't you promote it?
Speaker 4: So one thing is when you are in it, you
Speaker 4: be in it.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: That's all good.
Speaker 4: And speaking of executing plans, I mean, it's so perfect
Speaker 4: for my thought of the day today. You know, I'm
Speaker 4: obviously this book is coming. It's a it's a baby, okay,
Speaker 4: and it's crowning. It's right there. It's getting rided up,
Speaker 4: come out. It's here.
Speaker 1: This book is here. I Live to tell a story
Speaker 1: is out everywhere.
Speaker 4: On February eleventh. I know, I said, I said, Toya
Speaker 4: LaToya Bond. Let me give her credit. She's the one
Speaker 4: that worked with them to get some imagery from my
Speaker 4: photo shoot because I was complaining in the photo shoot
Speaker 4: I didn't hardly do none of the stuff.
Speaker 1: Right that I was supposed to do, but they did
Speaker 1: get it.
Speaker 4: People have been asking who was the creative mind behind
Speaker 4: the hairstyle. So you know, I have straight backs on
Speaker 4: one side with your braid's corn roads for anybody who
Speaker 4: doesn't know. And the other side is half of a
Speaker 4: bus us down. A bus down is just your hair
Speaker 4: straight with the part in the middle, and it represents for.
Speaker 1: Me who I am, you know.
Speaker 4: I on one hand, I got the whole roundaway girl piece,
Speaker 4: and that's my true nature. You know, I'm out here
Speaker 4: as an organizer where you gotta twist it up and
Speaker 4: you can't be trying to be too fly while you're
Speaker 4: out here organizing and moving, especially you know, when we're
Speaker 4: out in the south and in the summer and the heat,
Speaker 4: that's what the straight backs, that's where those have always
Speaker 4: been most comfortable for me. But I'm also a girly girl,
Speaker 4: right and so when you put those two things together
Speaker 4: for me, I couldn't find another way to have the
Speaker 4: cover represent all of who I am without those two
Speaker 4: images being there at the same time. So I came
Speaker 4: up with the idea and I gave it to the team,
Speaker 4: and between LaToya and.
Speaker 1: The and Kareem the gentleman who.
Speaker 4: Was the director of the shoot, and all the other individuals.
Speaker 4: I mean, it was so many people involved, stylists and
Speaker 4: hairstylists and makeup and all of that. They made it.
Speaker 4: They brought it to life, and I love it. I
Speaker 4: love the cover and I'm hearing from people they love it,
Speaker 4: and the photo shoot was amazing and all of that.
Speaker 4: So thank you for saying that, because I knew when
Speaker 4: they posted it. Just so y'all know, I don't post
Speaker 4: everything on my page. I woke up on Sunday morning
Speaker 4: and there was a post up there and people were talking.
Speaker 4: And then when I spoke to you, I said, oh,
Speaker 4: did you see the.
Speaker 1: Promo? And you were like, no, what is it?
Speaker 4: Then you called me back, You're like, oh, I like this,
Speaker 4: and you guys did good.
Speaker 5: That's it.
Speaker 3: This lady does not like to promote herself. She hates
Speaker 3: to put up video. I'm like, yo, you do so
Speaker 3: many things and you need to promote it. You need
Speaker 3: to have videos showing certain things, especially you're promoting the book.
Speaker 3: You're doing a lot of things and a lot of times,
Speaker 3: you know, the key to everything is marketing. Like you know,
Speaker 3: one thing shout out to Jamilla that she always says
Speaker 3: it David, doctor JAMILLERTI David. She said, if it ain't
Speaker 3: on camera, it ain't recorded.
Speaker 2: That it ain't happen.
Speaker 3: So a lot of times I have to force her to, like,
Speaker 3: you'll put this video out, or what happened to the
Speaker 3: footage from Natural? I'm not putting that up. And I'd
Speaker 3: be like, I don't understand why. I don't understand why
Speaker 3: you don't want to put a footage.
Speaker 4: Well, because I you know, and this is off topic
Speaker 4: from my thought of the day. However, one of the
Speaker 4: reasons that one of the things that I'm going to
Speaker 4: have to work through more in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: You say it's the year of execution.
Speaker 4: I have to be in the year of celebrating my
Speaker 4: wins and celebrating the work that I do and making
Speaker 4: sure that the world knows because I do so much
Speaker 4: every day that people never get a chance to see.
Speaker 4: But one of the things that I will tell you
Speaker 4: is that after the Women's March, I realize people were
Speaker 4: pushing me every day to be in front of a camera.
Speaker 4: People push me to post things, to talk about our success,
Speaker 4: to talk about my personal success, to tell our stories.
Speaker 4: And I did that. I leaned into it as much
Speaker 4: as possible. I wasn't all the way comfortable, but I
Speaker 4: did and I watched people go from celebrating you and
Speaker 4: being right next to you, right there in the mix
Speaker 4: with you, promoting to the point where the person who
Speaker 4: was the owner of the PR firm representing me once
Speaker 4: I had controversy never even contacted me again.
Speaker 1: Throughout the whole thing.
Speaker 4: Shit was burning all around me, and he never picked
Speaker 4: up the phone to call and say, hey, are you okay?
Speaker 1: Is there anything that I could do?
Speaker 4: He didn't even pick up the phone to say I
Speaker 4: don't want to work with you anymore. And so from
Speaker 4: that from my perspective, and just to be clear, prior
Speaker 4: to the Women's March, while there were some moments where
Speaker 4: I was pretty public, I was a writer in Essence magazine.
Speaker 4: I had a lot of different things going on. I
Speaker 4: always tried to stay under the radar. My boss, Reverend Sharpton,
Speaker 4: he was more of the public personality and we were
Speaker 4: behind the scenes, and he used to push me too,
Speaker 4: like you gotta get out there, you know, talk about
Speaker 4: your work and talk about your work, and you know,
Speaker 4: he was adamant that I needed to take the column
Speaker 4: in Essence so that my ideas would come to life
Speaker 4: and all of that, and that people would see that
Speaker 4: I was more than just a cute girl who works
Speaker 4: for sharp than who's a good assistant type, although I
Speaker 4: wasn't his assistant by that point, but you know, he
Speaker 4: wanted people to know that I had actual contribution to
Speaker 4: the movement, and so he pushed me to do that.
Speaker 4: But he was still the face and I was in
Speaker 4: the background. Once the Women's March came to be, I
Speaker 4: became the face in terms of being the most high
Speaker 4: profile black woman at the Women's March.
Speaker 1: And we see where that went.
Speaker 4: It turned out that I was ridiculed and and and uh,
Speaker 4: demoralized and just just everything I can't It's.
Speaker 3: It's like an American gangster. When the mob god was
Speaker 3: talking to Frank, he said, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: Your success? Took a shot at you. What are you
Speaker 2: gonna do? Become unsuccessful?
Speaker 3: Right? He said, you can you can have you can
Speaker 3: be successful and have enemies, or you can be unsuccessful
Speaker 3: and have friends. And it's it's very and I understand
Speaker 3: what you're saying, because you know, it's crazy how people
Speaker 3: root for you when you're the underdog, right, they root
Speaker 3: for you, and then as soon as you reach you
Speaker 3: not the underdog no more. You actually get the notoriety
Speaker 3: that you deserve. People want to they want to tear
Speaker 3: you down right.
Speaker 4: Well, as soon as you hit a moment where, especially
Speaker 4: where white people say ooh ooh, you're in trouble, then
Speaker 4: everybody's like, oh, let me back up or for you,
Speaker 4: because you know, I've been through other stuff where black
Speaker 4: people didn't like me for some reason or another, and
Speaker 4: guess what, it was fine, like, you know whatever. But
Speaker 4: when white folks decide that you've done something that steps
Speaker 4: in their area where they are either upset and or
Speaker 4: uncomfortable with how you're moving, that's when you see even
Speaker 4: a lot of your own people trying to separate themselves
Speaker 4: from you because they don't want to also be associated
Speaker 4: with whatever you have going on.
Speaker 1: And since I experienced.
Speaker 4: That, I kind of went back to what works for me,
Speaker 4: which is to do the work. Every now and then
Speaker 4: I pop out. But for the most part, I don't
Speaker 4: like to have the appearance that I am self and grandizing.
Speaker 4: I don't even know how you say that, but y'all
Speaker 4: know whatever, people know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: I don't like to do that anyway.
Speaker 4: Because I have a book that is coming out now,
Speaker 4: I have no choice but to be more public, to
Speaker 4: post more things, to speak in more places, and to
Speaker 4: rely on team members and other pe people around who
Speaker 4: always want to promote me and always want to help to,
Speaker 4: you know, make sure that all of our work is
Speaker 4: on front Street so that we can sell books, because
Speaker 4: ultimately that's what we want, not just to sell the books,
Speaker 4: but for people to be inspired.
Speaker 1: By the story.
Speaker 4: Because if you inspired by the story, you're gonna buy
Speaker 4: a book, right, So that's what that's the goal.
Speaker 1: And it made me think.
Speaker 4: Over the holiday, I had one convers I had two
Speaker 4: conversations with two individuals who want me to hire them
Speaker 4: as super publicists basically for a short period of time
Speaker 4: to help me work on the launch of the book.
Speaker 1: And as I sat.
Speaker 4: With just listening to them and thinking about what went
Speaker 4: on in the conversation and then thinking about past publicists
Speaker 4: and others that I have worked with and teams that
Speaker 4: I've worked with, I wanted to share this thing because
Speaker 4: just so people know my history is not just being
Speaker 4: a public speaker and an activist. I also have always
Speaker 4: been a part of the machine, the operation behind organizations ideas.
Speaker 4: I worked with Global Hue Advertising and helped to work
Speaker 4: on some of the major campaigns that they did with big, big, big,
Speaker 4: big big corporations. Right, I've done all of that and
Speaker 4: been sort of again behind the scenes. So I know
Speaker 4: a lot about management. I know a lot about pr
Speaker 4: I know a lot about these individuals who claim.
Speaker 1: That this is the work that they do. And here's
Speaker 1: my thought of the day.
Speaker 4: For any manager, publicist, stylist, whoever you are out there
Speaker 4: that's taking people's money telling them that you're going to
Speaker 4: help to manage some part of their lives or their
Speaker 4: life or their career. Stop doing that if you really
Speaker 4: don't know how to do it. Stop doing that if
Speaker 4: you really.
Speaker 5: Don't know how to.
Speaker 4: Because I feel like what makes a good manager, a
Speaker 4: good publicist, a good stylist. These are people who can
Speaker 4: do for you what you can't do for yourself. If
Speaker 4: all you are doing as a brand manager or as
Speaker 4: a publicist is getting phone calls that come into you,
Speaker 4: and you facilitate the arrangements of it, maybe do a
Speaker 4: little bit of negotiation, and then the person whoever you're
Speaker 4: representing goes out into the world and completes the job.
Speaker 4: You are a good assistant at best, you're a good administrator.
Speaker 1: That means that you are able to check.
Speaker 4: An email, get a phone call, and do something with
Speaker 4: someone who already thought about you, and they already came
Speaker 4: to you asking for you to participate in whatever. This
Speaker 4: is a good manager, publicist, stylists, whomever it is, is
Speaker 4: able to go out and get you opportunities that you
Speaker 4: did not even think of. Their job is to go
Speaker 4: find you opportunities efficiently, not to come to you with, oh,
Speaker 4: we got a call from Beet or from Revote or
Speaker 4: whomever and they want you to do That's cool. That
Speaker 4: is a particular that's a percentage of the job.
Speaker 3: But that's, like you said, as an assistant, because the
Speaker 3: only thing you're doing is actually assist in me. When
Speaker 3: you say you're a manager or publicist, then that means
Speaker 3: that you are able to provide something that I'm not able.
Speaker 2: To provide for myself.
Speaker 3: Right, So if you're only capitalizing off what I've already provided,
Speaker 3: then you're just assisting me with the work I've already done.
Speaker 4: Exactly, you're assisting the person you're representing with helping them
Speaker 4: to execute whatever or whatever was already in your inbox.
Speaker 4: So it could have been in your inbox, it could
Speaker 4: have been in JoJo's.
Speaker 1: It could have been in the.
Speaker 4: Person's inbox directly, it could have been wherever. If you
Speaker 4: are not able to pitch and close deals to get
Speaker 4: new opportunities, that's fresh ideas. Or if you hear the
Speaker 4: person that you're working with saying I want I want
Speaker 4: to do lipstick. Okay, this is your idea. You want
Speaker 4: to do lipstick. So now it's my job to go
Speaker 4: find you a partner, to go figure out what's the
Speaker 4: pieces of that and make you the best lipstick seller
Speaker 4: that's ever sold lipstick. But it is not a being
Speaker 4: a in my job. It is not excuse me, in
Speaker 4: my opinion, right, it is not for you to wait
Speaker 4: until the lipstick people call, or until I go out
Speaker 4: and find somebody and then I come back to you
Speaker 4: and say, oh, you know, call Lisa and we gonna
Speaker 4: work on lipstick together. That means you're a great administrator
Speaker 4: and you should say that.
Speaker 1: And by the way, there is nothing.
Speaker 4: Wrong with that because I know assistant who work for
Speaker 4: important people that are making two hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 4: dollars a year and even more than that if they
Speaker 4: get involved in you know, cutting a few deals.
Speaker 1: Or what have you.
Speaker 2: But people it's important.
Speaker 1: It's at you.
Speaker 4: Can't even move unless you have people who are really
Speaker 4: really good at executing details.
Speaker 1: That's what you do.
Speaker 4: But you are not the manager, the publicist, the great
Speaker 4: stylists and all of that. If all you do is
Speaker 4: just put people in what they already can do for themselves,
Speaker 4: it doesn't it doesn't work. And so for two thousand
Speaker 4: and twenty five, I am also looking at that. Anybody
Speaker 4: who comes to me now and says I want to
Speaker 4: work with you on whatever, whether it be the book,
Speaker 4: whether it be something for until freedom, the question needs
Speaker 4: to be what can you offer that I cannot gain
Speaker 4: for myself? So if I am the one who has
Speaker 4: the relationship already, and then that does not count as
Speaker 4: something that you brought to me unless you said, hey,
Speaker 4: I think you should ask your friend yo, unless.
Speaker 3: You're able to take the relationship that I already have
Speaker 3: in maximum, That's.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying, already been doing exactly.
Speaker 3: Like if they come to me and they say yo,
Speaker 3: when they only want to give me twenty and you're like, okay,
Speaker 3: what and you come back with a hundred thousand?
Speaker 2: Now you now you asked it?
Speaker 3: Because I don't even know my work and you're able
Speaker 3: to help me, you know, bring my work. But if
Speaker 3: you if you just negotiating the deal that I already
Speaker 3: told you is on the deal, and you just pinning
Speaker 3: it down and you you know you able to bring
Speaker 3: it for you did a good job, because that's a
Speaker 3: required job. But it's not management, it's not publicists, and
Speaker 3: it's not those things that's needed.
Speaker 2: So we still need a managing the publishers.
Speaker 1: You did, well, yeah, they're not exactly that.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: I would say, like with my management team, one of
Speaker 4: the best things that I love to celebrate about them
Speaker 4: is somebody will come with X amount of money and
Speaker 4: they will find a way to get it increased. They
Speaker 4: that's one thing you can toy a bond. The Toya
Speaker 4: Bond will fight you down for every dime that I'm
Speaker 4: supposed to have. So when you call you tell you
Speaker 4: got twenty five hundred dollars. She's one of those people
Speaker 4: that's like, we can't. I mean, it's not even a conversation.
Speaker 4: It's gotta be x y Z. And one thing Toya
Speaker 4: will do is sit with the person and be like,
Speaker 4: let me help you find where you're gonna get the
Speaker 4: rest of this money. Because she can't come for twenty
Speaker 4: five hundred dollars. That's not gonna happen. But I like you,
Speaker 4: and I want to make it happen. But we gotta
Speaker 4: figure it out. But I'm saying that overall, this is
Speaker 4: a challenge that I think, uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, most people run into.
Speaker 1: I think it's a challenge that many.
Speaker 4: I want to call I don't want to say celebrities,
Speaker 4: maybe influencers, maybe key individuals is a better word, a
Speaker 4: better term. It's a challenge that many of us face
Speaker 4: but don't really like to talk about because no one
Speaker 4: wants to upset either the people around them, and or
Speaker 4: they just glad to have the good administrator, the good assistant,
Speaker 4: because if they didn't have that, they would have nothing.
Speaker 4: So they just accepted a lot of people don't even
Speaker 4: know what it's supposed to look like to have a
Speaker 4: real professional team, and a professional person who is working
Speaker 4: on representing you is supposed to pitch you to places
Speaker 4: outside of your comfort zone. And so I just you know,
Speaker 4: that's my twenty twenty five. If you come to me
Speaker 4: and you want a partner, you want to work with me,
Speaker 4: don't come to me asking for me to open my books.
Speaker 4: And my relationships, and then that's how we're gonna get
Speaker 4: things done. You gotta come to me and tell me
Speaker 4: that you have something that you can offer me so
Speaker 4: that I can see where we're building together, not where
Speaker 4: it's all being done on my back. Because the other thing,
Speaker 4: it's the last thing I'll say on this, is that
Speaker 4: a lot of people will get your contacts and your
Speaker 4: relationships and the next thing you know, they'll be using
Speaker 4: it to help build somebody else or to build their
Speaker 4: own thing. So you think that they're working on working
Speaker 4: with whatever company or whatever person you introduce them to,
Speaker 4: and the next thing you know, you find out they're
Speaker 4: over there, you know, making making lease a Leasa's joint pop.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's the industry we're in.
Speaker 3: And you know, I've learned that and I've done a
Speaker 3: lot on my own based on those those situations.
Speaker 1: You know, that's me.
Speaker 2: I go to the.
Speaker 3: Table and I figure out my own, build my own
Speaker 3: from the ground up. And then when you find it's
Speaker 3: good to be able to find comfortable people that you
Speaker 3: feel comfortable, you know, filling in certain gaps. But you
Speaker 3: know that that's a very that's a very strong thing
Speaker 3: to have people that can that can get resources and
Speaker 3: get opportunities for you that you you're not in the
Speaker 3: room for that you don't even know exist if they
Speaker 3: see something. And that's also about belief, right, A lot
Speaker 3: of times you have people that they don't they don't
Speaker 3: believe that you should be in those like you might
Speaker 3: think you want thing, and they don't pitch it to
Speaker 3: you because they don't. They don't even know how to
Speaker 3: sell that, right, They don't even know how to sell you.
Speaker 3: So it's not a time, it's not a thing a
Speaker 3: negative thing on them.
Speaker 2: It's just that sometimes people just don't know.
Speaker 4: Right, But they want big checks, they want to check,
Speaker 4: they want big checks, and every and everybody wants a check,
Speaker 4: you know. And I think one of the reasons why
Speaker 4: I'm able to speak on this so confidently is because
Speaker 4: I've done all the different jobs. I've done all the
Speaker 4: different jobs, and I pride myself on attempting to get
Speaker 4: to the point of excellence. Excellence is a high bar,
Speaker 4: but I try really, really hard when I say I'm
Speaker 4: gonna do something, to really do it and to be
Speaker 4: as good as possible at whatever I'm working on. And
Speaker 4: I see that so many people are okay with media,
Speaker 4: they're so okay with just getting by, and for me,
Speaker 4: that's just.
Speaker 1: A turn off.
Speaker 4: So I'm all about I'm all for collaboration. I'm all
Speaker 4: for working with people. I want folks to you know,
Speaker 4: see me and want to figure out how they can
Speaker 4: help me to make what I've already built bigger and stronger.
Speaker 1: But certainly we're not gonna be able to do that.
Speaker 4: If the plan is that I'm supposed to tell you
Speaker 4: who are my people that you can call to get
Speaker 4: done already? What I can do for myself, well that's
Speaker 4: another whole thing. Now, if that's what you want to do,
Speaker 4: then you could come. I respect people who say from
Speaker 4: the gidea, I'm good at executing details, I know how
Speaker 4: to you know how to negotiate. I'm good at, you know,
Speaker 4: taking small plans and making them big. But the one
Speaker 4: thing I can say is I don't know the people.
Speaker 4: I don't know who to call. So if you have
Speaker 4: some folks.
Speaker 1: Let me know.
Speaker 4: But then then were talking about a different pay grade.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about people who call you telling you day
Speaker 4: to one.
Speaker 3: People you called and tell them that I'm the one,
Speaker 3: and they believe you.
Speaker 2: So much that we got it like that. That's what
Speaker 2: I want.
Speaker 3: I want the people that sell me when I ain't there.
Speaker 3: I want people that walk into movie, to walk into
Speaker 3: the on a set with Denzel and be like, my
Speaker 3: song be dope for this movie? Who else listening to me?
Speaker 3: You gotta meet him? And next you know, I got
Speaker 3: a conversation with Denzel and just off the conversation and
Speaker 3: the belief that that person han't you. I've seen situations
Speaker 3: happen like that, you know what I'm saying. People just
Speaker 3: believe in you that and they talk you into a
Speaker 3: great your greatness, you know, and they push you to
Speaker 3: beyond what you actually seek and be done, and they
Speaker 3: walk into rooms and they sell you in Avana that
Speaker 3: you feel like, well, I got to make them proud.
Speaker 4: And I think we've done that for one together. We
Speaker 4: have done that for one another. Because there's certain people.
Speaker 4: I didn't have a relationship with Charyl Mane until I
Speaker 4: met you, and then you were like, no, y'all have
Speaker 4: to work together and you need to go, you know,
Speaker 4: meet with him, and then vice versa. There were relationships
Speaker 4: that you didn't have. You had a powerful story, a
Speaker 4: powerful testimony, a lot of passion, but not the relationships
Speaker 4: with some of the people that I've been able to
Speaker 4: introduce you to. And it is believed because I can
Speaker 4: remember when we first started working together. There were people
Speaker 4: telling me like, what are you doing? Focus on yourself?
Speaker 1: Why? And I but I knew. I saw what I saw,
Speaker 1: and I knew what I knew.
Speaker 4: And now you busy and I'm like, hey, can you
Speaker 4: you know I'm still here.
Speaker 2: We all work, we all work, teamwork, make the dream work.
Speaker 1: Anyway, it's all good.
Speaker 2: So for the tea of mine today, you wanted to
Speaker 2: discuss Waka.
Speaker 1: Flocka me laugh.
Speaker 4: I can say a lot about mister Flokka, but I
Speaker 4: will stick with the most recent thing that the brother did.
Speaker 4: So I was on the internet last week and I
Speaker 4: saw a video or a picture like on Shade Room
Speaker 4: or one of them of him looking like he was
Speaker 4: beat up, like scars all over his face. And I
Speaker 4: think it was a caption that said, I can't believe
Speaker 4: nobody helped me fight off ten people, right, And so
Speaker 4: then a couple like a day or two later, somebody
Speaker 4: called me up and said, read read this and tell me.
Speaker 1: What's wrong with it.
Speaker 4: So I go check it out, and it was him
Speaker 4: saying Waka flaka saying.
Speaker 1: Look at y'all.
Speaker 4: People just believe anything without doing any research. And I
Speaker 4: just sat there and said to myself, no, sir, that's
Speaker 4: not how it works. Like it's the level of people
Speaker 4: trying to troll and not even knowing how to do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just don't want to do it.
Speaker 4: Well, because that's not how misinformation and not doing research works.
Speaker 4: The best research that you can do for anything is
Speaker 4: to go to the source.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 1: That is the research is to go to the source.
Speaker 4: So if the source tells you that something happened to them,
Speaker 4: then you are more than likely going to believe or
Speaker 4: at least listen to what they say. If I come
Speaker 4: on this show right now and say, last week I
Speaker 4: was knock on wood god forbid, robbed on one hundred
Speaker 4: and sixty first Street in the Grand Concourse, or forty
Speaker 4: second Street in Seventh Avenue, because we ain't gonna be
Speaker 4: taking all the crime to the bronx me doing all that,
Speaker 4: So forty.
Speaker 1: Second Street and seventh they rob down nanty.
Speaker 4: So if I say that, and you hear me say
Speaker 4: it out my mouth and I show you my purse
Speaker 4: that got ripped open, you are more than likely going
Speaker 4: to believe that, and it will probably become viral on
Speaker 4: socials with people being like, wow, Tamika Mallory was robbed
Speaker 4: in Manhattan on X Day. She says they grabs her
Speaker 4: purse and this you know, blah blah blah. Misinformation is
Speaker 4: if somebody else says that I was robbed and you
Speaker 4: don't know whether or not you can believe what that
Speaker 4: person said, it is not when it's coming from the
Speaker 4: sources mouth.
Speaker 2: The source is just a liar. It's not misinfamiation.
Speaker 4: Well, so then that's the question. Is Waka Flaka saying
Speaker 4: that we can't trust what comes out of his mouth?
Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 3: What are you trying to say that we shouldn't trust
Speaker 3: you to tell us that you would beat up by
Speaker 3: ten people, or we should look for somebody else to confirm?
Speaker 1: And who should we ask? Should we ask the abusers
Speaker 1: one of the people that you if.
Speaker 3: Nobody was there or if the people who got in
Speaker 3: fight was the only people there, then it didn't happen.
Speaker 3: This is and that's my thing, right people always, because
Speaker 3: that's a that's a criticism, like I.
Speaker 2: Remember, you know the young lady that was.
Speaker 3: Allegedly hit with a brick, and I said, yo, if
Speaker 3: any man that would hit a woman with a brick
Speaker 3: is a coward, And I still feel that way.
Speaker 2: And people said, well, she never was a hit with
Speaker 2: a brick. Whatever, whether she was hit with.
Speaker 3: A brick or not, it does not take away the
Speaker 3: fact that I said that if a man hits a
Speaker 3: woman with a brick.
Speaker 2: He's a coward.
Speaker 3: If she and if she was hit with a brick,
Speaker 3: and I am inclined to say, why would a woman
Speaker 3: lie about that? And if she did lie, and y'all
Speaker 3: prove she lied, that's not on me. Im My due
Speaker 3: diligence is to say, hey, this is wrong. I didn't
Speaker 3: call out any individual nobody. I didn't get a person
Speaker 3: locked up. I didn't say this person did this. I
Speaker 3: didn't know who did anything. I said, if these things happened,
Speaker 3: that it was wrong. So when people say it's misinformation
Speaker 3: and you grab it. If we see Walker Flock and
Speaker 3: somebody that we respect, Waker Flock and somebody I'm cool with,
Speaker 3: I'm knowing Waker Flocker for years, you know, shout out
Speaker 3: to Beny like I'm knowing Waker for years.
Speaker 2: So if Waker said he got jumped. Why would I
Speaker 2: not believe that Waka God.
Speaker 4: Jumped that he said it out of his mouth.
Speaker 1: How it works, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't mia, and I just don't understand a lot
Speaker 3: of things that's been going on lately on the Internet.
Speaker 3: I know a lot of people and they do things
Speaker 3: on the Internet now lately that confused me. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, the Internet has has me confused about
Speaker 3: a lot of people.
Speaker 2: That I've known prior to the Internet. A lot of
Speaker 2: things that are being said.
Speaker 4: So it's that, and that for me is kind of
Speaker 4: like what confuses me because I feel like people are
Speaker 4: so you know what, Here's what I think. If my
Speaker 4: mother was sitting here right now and she heard this
Speaker 4: whole story, she would say.
Speaker 1: Y'all ain't busy enough.
Speaker 4: Y'all need to find some actional things to do, because
Speaker 4: if you're not at multi millionaire status, multi multi millionaire
Speaker 4: status where you can take care.
Speaker 1: Of your community and other communities and.
Speaker 4: Build infrastructure and be at the table with people who
Speaker 4: are doing things like that, Like I want to be able.
Speaker 4: I want Robert Smith and other people like him to
Speaker 4: be calling me to be a part of investments and
Speaker 4: things that they have going on, and until that happens
Speaker 4: in my life, I really don't have time to make
Speaker 4: videos of myself doing something and then telling people, Oh,
Speaker 4: you didn't.
Speaker 1: Check and you don't know. It's like, are you bored?
Speaker 4: Because I really like you know I personally, I like
Speaker 4: Waka's mother. I think that that you know, she's dope.
Speaker 4: You know, we've had some real strong conversations. I don't
Speaker 4: agree with their political stances, nonetheless I like them. I
Speaker 4: know that this is a talented young man who's super cool.
Speaker 4: Every time I've met him, been in his presence, he's cool.
Speaker 4: But I feel like the Internet just be having us
Speaker 4: confused or something. Something is wrong because this did not
Speaker 4: make any sense to me. And so my team I
Speaker 4: today is Waka you doing too much like you?
Speaker 1: No we believe you?
Speaker 4: Or are you telling us that we can't believe you
Speaker 4: when you say something?
Speaker 3: Well that's a very fair question. Yeah, very fair question,
Speaker 3: and that brings us to our guess. So today we
Speaker 3: are joined by a friend of mine. This is my
Speaker 3: friend's friend. I'm telling he's you gonna wanna be his
Speaker 3: friend because Santino Drew, who is the founder of Wise
Speaker 3: Money Academy, you know, has been teaching me about stocks
Speaker 3: and how to do options, and like he has a strategy.
Speaker 3: Like a lot of people. You go on line and
Speaker 3: I hear a lot of people, and there's a lot
Speaker 3: of people that that are dope.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Shout out to my brothers Fromalisia, Rashard and Troy, they
Speaker 3: do they things. Shout out to Wall Street Trapper, like
Speaker 3: these are people that I respect. But Santino is also
Speaker 3: one of those brothers that has been in the trenches
Speaker 3: and he brings it to you from that part, that
Speaker 3: perspective that makes you understand stocks and stocks and trading.
Speaker 3: And I made some money with him, you know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying. So that's that's the main thing. When you
Speaker 3: make some money when somebody talk about it, a lot
Speaker 3: of people you go online and I'll be listening to
Speaker 3: it now after you know, actually working with Santino. When
Speaker 3: you go online and you hear a lot of these
Speaker 3: you know, internet traders, you realize that they really not
Speaker 3: telling you nothing. They just selling you a dream more
Speaker 3: in it because they never really give you anything. Like
Speaker 3: he'll send me stuff and be like, tell me what
Speaker 3: this guy is saying and I'm listening, I'd be like,
Speaker 3: it ain't nothing that he's given you, no meat or nothing.
Speaker 3: He just telling you, yo, you can make this and
Speaker 3: you can do this and I did this, but he
Speaker 3: ain't giving you no tools to do it. He ain't
Speaker 3: giving you no strategy, nothing that you can understand, you know,
Speaker 3: and saying, is one of those people that has made
Speaker 3: me understand in a short period of time.
Speaker 2: And it was it's like options and trading for dummies.
Speaker 2: It really is.
Speaker 3: It's like it's like and he breaks it down being
Speaker 3: from you know, I don't want to give his whole story.
Speaker 2: I want him to give you his own story. But
Speaker 2: just where we come from.
Speaker 3: There's a way that you have to explain and things
Speaker 3: that you understand that he knows how to do it.
Speaker 2: So shout out to my brother saying, you know, thanks.
Speaker 5: For coming to shout out to y'all man for having
Speaker 5: me up here. This is this is long awaited. Definitely
Speaker 5: much respect to everything y'all. Do you know Mice we
Speaker 5: talk all the time, and it was like an honor
Speaker 5: seeing y'all that day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we met.
Speaker 3: We met at investvest at the truck. We was at
Speaker 3: the food truck in the heat and we're standing there
Speaker 3: like yo, it's every truck is full and they moving
Speaker 3: mass slow. And then we just started having a conversation.
Speaker 3: And the next thing, you know, we sitting there for
Speaker 3: like an hour talking and then we just exchanged information.
Speaker 4: And so that's what you two of you first met there, Yeah,
Speaker 4: the first and.
Speaker 2: You was there.
Speaker 3: You were you were too hot, you ain't feeling about
Speaker 3: the heat.
Speaker 5: You wasn't trying to hear much.
Speaker 3: And you and you remember me, you remember me, you
Speaker 3: know the next time you see me, you said peace?
Speaker 5: Why all right? Yeah, because you.
Speaker 1: Know, damn, I'm really bad.
Speaker 5: You see a lot of people that invest FST. But
Speaker 5: when you see real soldiers of the fight, it's different,
Speaker 5: if you mean, you know, because I'm bred different. I
Speaker 5: come up different. So to see what you guys do,
Speaker 5: to see to y'all have my brother shout out, shout
Speaker 5: out the touch, shout out the eighth of grade. Y'all
Speaker 5: just had them over here. And when I see people
Speaker 5: like y'all, that means so much more than me than
Speaker 5: seeing my favorite celebrity. You see what I'm saying, because
Speaker 5: it's like respect to them in their art or whatever
Speaker 5: they did to make them. My favorite celebrity. But this
Speaker 5: is real, this is needed. This is just that groundwork. Man,
Speaker 5: It's serious. So shout out to y'all.
Speaker 2: Man, So give us, give us your background. Where are
Speaker 2: you from?
Speaker 3: Give us a little bit of background of you so
Speaker 3: people can understand your story and why this is important.
Speaker 5: Got you so born in a bad place, raised in
Speaker 5: another bad place. Born in Chicago, came to Jersey City,
Speaker 5: New Jersey, raised the New Bruns with New Jersey a
Speaker 5: few stops in between. Their family was a little nomadic,
Speaker 5: you know. It's normally like that when you're in a
Speaker 5: single parent household, especially for my mom because she she
Speaker 5: lost her parents at young so it was a lot
Speaker 5: of moving around. So I had my share different ghettos.
Speaker 5: Never you know, lived in New York or anything like that,
Speaker 5: but right here, you know. So yeah, man, just always
Speaker 5: a trouble child, getting kicked out of school, things like that,
Speaker 5: running the streets. You know, was rapping at a time,
Speaker 5: you know, Yeah, yeah, definitely, definitely. I used to go.
Speaker 5: I used to go, don't worry, y'all, I'm not gonna
Speaker 5: clog up the lane. Don't worry about it. I'm done.
Speaker 5: I'm not going lebron this thing. But anyway, now I
Speaker 5: used to wrap and you know, running around in the
Speaker 5: streets at the same time, you know, a problematic child
Speaker 5: dropped out of school in ninth grade. And I'm giving
Speaker 5: in this context just so people could know when we
Speaker 5: get into the investment talk who I am. So there's
Speaker 5: no misconception about what you have to look like or
Speaker 5: who you have to be to be involved in this.
Speaker 5: In fact, this is the least required game that you
Speaker 5: can get in. You know, they don't care about your
Speaker 5: credit score. They don't care about your background. As long
Speaker 5: as you didn't steal any money, grand larceny, any fraud,
Speaker 5: anything like that. You can open an account. They don't
Speaker 5: care if you're from the projects or if you're from
Speaker 5: the penthouse. They don't care. Open up your robbin hood,
Speaker 5: you know how it was it for you and you
Speaker 5: actually had that before we met. You said, said, I
Speaker 5: got a robbin hood already. So that's pretty much my background,
Speaker 5: you know, from ghetto to ghetto, street dealer. You know,
Speaker 5: had my share of bumps and bruises in the streets,
Speaker 5: violence inflicted on me, inflicting violence on people. Just recently
Speaker 5: came home five and a half years Well, no, man,
Speaker 5: I've lost the time. It's twenty twenty five now, so
Speaker 5: I've been home eight years.
Speaker 2: Now. How long did you serve?
Speaker 5: I did five years and nine months, but I actually
Speaker 5: had a twenty two year sentence. First half of that
Speaker 5: five years and nine months was spent fighting, you know,
Speaker 5: putting in the pills and learning federal law. And I
Speaker 5: was actually learning federal law in the stock market and
Speaker 5: economics at the same time.
Speaker 2: So you learned about the stock market in prison.
Speaker 5: In prison, in federal prison, to be exact.
Speaker 2: Did what made you want to I?
Speaker 5: I I actually seen a friend of mine who I
Speaker 5: was in state prison with. You know, this is my
Speaker 5: second stint. So first time, I did three years in
Speaker 5: state prison in New Jersey. I ran into a guy
Speaker 5: shout out to my man, A I ran into him.
Speaker 5: And Jersey's a small community in the FED. So when
Speaker 5: I seen him, it was like he told me he
Speaker 5: had already heard somebody from Jersey came to where I was,
Speaker 5: which was Farrington FCI in New Jersey and it's a
Speaker 5: medium correction facility. So when I seen him, he had
Speaker 5: this mesh bag with him, a great mesh bag, and
Speaker 5: that blew my mind, you know, because I'm down here,
Speaker 5: and this is my first time out on the compound.
Speaker 5: You know, you're able to walk around. And I see
Speaker 5: guys with these mesh bags like they're going to school,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, where am I? You know, And so
Speaker 5: I stopped him. I said, hey, what's up? And he
Speaker 5: was like, yo, they told me you was down here.
Speaker 5: So I was like, all right, where you going man?
Speaker 5: While you're in a rush?
Speaker 2: What's up? Man?
Speaker 5: He's like, oh, I got to make it to the
Speaker 5: stock class. I said, a stock class. And I already
Speaker 5: known him when we was down before, you know, I
Speaker 5: was I was younger than I was, about twenty five.
Speaker 5: But we was always on our elevation thing, you know,
Speaker 5: reading books and trying to you know, exchange information and
Speaker 5: things like that. On our fake quest to go home
Speaker 5: and change our life. It didn't happen. So I say,
Speaker 5: it's a fake quest, so you believe that part of
Speaker 5: me did, but the real monster was screaming for something else.
Speaker 5: It wasn't the time to stop. Yet. You get your time.
Speaker 5: You know your time, and hopefully people will know their time,
Speaker 5: you know, and have that opportunity to actually, you know,
Speaker 5: have a chance to redeem yourself and change it around.
Speaker 5: But so I see a and he like, yeah, it's
Speaker 5: this guy up there. They call him Wall Street shout
Speaker 5: out to Wall Street Trapper, but not Wall Street Trapper.
Speaker 5: An older guy from New Jersey, and he was a
Speaker 5: hustle in the streets. But he said he always played
Speaker 5: the stock market. He said, Yo, this guy is actually
Speaker 5: on your unit. Get in touch with him. And from
Speaker 5: there was on. I went to his class. I went
Speaker 5: to his class so many times that they told me
Speaker 5: I couldn't put my name on the list no more.
Speaker 5: So I needed to get enough from him. And just
Speaker 5: like you said, the way I deliver it is the
Speaker 5: way I got got it from him. He wasn't super articulate,
Speaker 5: he wasn't super you know, crazy with the words. He
Speaker 5: was a street guy and when he talked, he moved
Speaker 5: his hands like he was rapping. So everybody liked his
Speaker 5: class because you know, he put in such a simplest
Speaker 5: form He had this this formula, same thing. I told you,
Speaker 5: you know, who's running the market, how do you participate?
Speaker 5: And you know it was very easy to understand. So I,
Speaker 5: you know, from there I fell in love. But the
Speaker 5: real thing that made me know that I didn't if
Speaker 5: I hadn't already attempted to get back my time in
Speaker 5: the FEDS and went down that rabbit hole, right, which
Speaker 5: is a very complex rabbit hole, right, I wouldn't have
Speaker 5: probably approached the stock market stuff. I approached it unconsciously
Speaker 5: because it was something that I was always slightly intrigued
Speaker 5: by but never had the chance to really die take
Speaker 5: a deeper delv into it. So when he told me
Speaker 5: it was second nature, because now I had already learned
Speaker 5: that I could learn federal law with a ninth grade education.
Speaker 5: So by the time you mentioned something complex like options
Speaker 5: in economics, it's cool. I just came from over here.
Speaker 5: I'm not even sizing it up. I'm not even in
Speaker 5: my head like, oh, I can't learn that is what
Speaker 5: do you mean? That's not even a thought, you see
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. I'm in the process. I got these
Speaker 5: people backs against the wall. I can learn anything at
Speaker 5: this point. So that's that's what I believe really made
Speaker 5: me know that this was something I needed to do,
Speaker 5: because already in my mind, no matter how complex the
Speaker 5: federal system was, or no matter how many people had
Speaker 5: life or had money more money than me, that couldn't
Speaker 5: get home. I knew I was coming home. I knew that,
Speaker 5: so in my mind I had to play it all
Speaker 5: the way out right, this whole optimism picture right now,
Speaker 5: start preparing to come home. What you're gonna do when
Speaker 5: you get home. You still got that thirst, You still
Speaker 5: like certain things, what you're gonna do. So I gravitated
Speaker 5: towards those people. When I got there, an older guy
Speaker 5: never been to the fedes. An older guy said, younger,
Speaker 5: you looking around a lot. You've been You've been to
Speaker 5: the FES before. I said, nah. He said, I'm back
Speaker 5: on a probation violation. He said, but I'm gonna tell
Speaker 5: you like this, this could either be one of two
Speaker 5: things for you. It could be university or a playground.
Speaker 2: He said.
Speaker 5: If you're a wise man, it's gonna be a university.
Speaker 5: If you're a fool, it's gonna be a playground. And
Speaker 5: he told me that, and I never forgot that that
Speaker 5: was It was ironic because the young boys after me,
Speaker 5: Wall Street A and a couple other guys after I'm already,
Speaker 5: you know, well versed into the stock market thing. It's
Speaker 5: like five of us that walk around a compound all
Speaker 5: the time, studying and trading information.
Speaker 2: So people know us.
Speaker 5: So they call us the wise men. So that's where
Speaker 5: that whole thing came from, the Wise Money Academy. So
Speaker 5: and the guy in the holding tank, and you know,
Speaker 5: when you're coming from reception, you're in a holding tank.
Speaker 5: And that's what he told me, like he was warning
Speaker 5: me about the prison, things you could get into, you know,
Speaker 5: what not to get into. And he was right. You know,
Speaker 5: it's a playground. You know. You can do everything except
Speaker 5: have a girlfriend in there, you know, and you can
Speaker 5: make any kind of money you want, or you can
Speaker 5: learn anything you want. You got loan sharks, you got
Speaker 5: guys in there for all type of fraud, credit fraud,
Speaker 5: loan fraud, real estate fraud, you know, larceny, inside of trading. Right.
Speaker 5: So I had these people as my mentors, you know,
Speaker 5: So it wasn't just stocks and options. I learned. I
Speaker 5: learned everything I could about money. And I think that
Speaker 5: is the most important job I have to put my
Speaker 5: people on to the money. It ain't just about see
Speaker 5: I'm wowing them, you know, we're in the challenge right now,
Speaker 5: wowing them, letting them see that they can make eighteen
Speaker 5: hundred off three hundred dollars that they can make turn
Speaker 5: two hundred dollars into five thousand dollars in one day.
Speaker 5: I'm letting them see that, but I'm also keeping their
Speaker 5: emotions at bay to let them know it's a bigger picture. Right.
Speaker 5: I need you to understand that the wealthy has many
Speaker 5: simple systems like this that they use to get money.
Speaker 5: And it's not about who's keeping what from what. Because
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be honest with both of y'all on here.
Speaker 5: Most of my mentors were white, you understand, right, And
Speaker 5: the ones that I met, they actually told me go
Speaker 5: home and feed your people. You see what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: but you, but you it ain't. It's not a kawinkident
Speaker 5: where you're getting this information from though, right?
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: Well you said most You said that wealthy people have
Speaker 4: many systems where they make so many simple systems.
Speaker 1: Can you talk more about that?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 5: For instance, right, life insurance. We all think life insurance
Speaker 5: is so that when you die, your kids don't go
Speaker 5: broke trying to bury you. That's one thing, and that's
Speaker 5: the smallest thing. Life insurance is an institution. The people
Speaker 5: who own life insurance companies they are huge, trillion and
Speaker 5: billion dollar institutions. So you have to ask yourself if
Speaker 5: you got a whole life plan and they're, you know,
Speaker 5: pretty much giving you a certain amount of money on
Speaker 5: the money that you're putting up every month, how are
Speaker 5: they actually able to do this with so many people?
Speaker 5: For one, the insurance policies aren't getting called in that early, right.
Speaker 5: It's like having insurance on your car. You're paying for something.
Speaker 5: You're paying for something you don't need. You got insurance
Speaker 5: on your car, right, you don't need it until you
Speaker 5: get in the accidents. Why am I paying for it
Speaker 5: the other twelve months out of the year, the other
Speaker 5: eleven months out of the year. So when you think
Speaker 5: about life insurance, when you give them your money, they're
Speaker 5: investing it in the US stock market, and that's how
Speaker 5: they're able to give you those returns because it's a
Speaker 5: simple system. They know something that most of us don't,
Speaker 5: that the US stock market was designed to go up,
Speaker 5: and that is no it's no if as a butt's
Speaker 5: about it. They know that your four to one K,
Speaker 5: your four three B, your retirement, your pension is all
Speaker 5: tied to them in some form of fashion, and tied
Speaker 5: to the stock market. We're the only ones that don't
Speaker 5: know that. And when I say we, I say it's
Speaker 5: a lot of people. It's not just you know, minority.
Speaker 2: Or brown people.
Speaker 5: You see what I'm saying. It's a lot of whites.
Speaker 5: It's a lot of Asians that don't know this game.
Speaker 5: I've had all sorts of students. Man, you be surprised.
Speaker 5: But it's just that, you know, when we're when we're
Speaker 5: the minority here, it's gonna seem as if like the
Speaker 5: information just goes to one class, because it does, because
Speaker 5: it's more of them than us. So it's more people
Speaker 5: that understand money. And they didn't get blocked exactly. They
Speaker 5: weren't getting blocked. We were getting blocked at the point.
Speaker 5: We still get blocked a lot of different ways. You know,
Speaker 5: it's just certain things they they don't want to block.
Speaker 5: As time went on, my opinion is that you know,
Speaker 5: as time went on and they moved these old goats
Speaker 5: out the way, you know, some of these younger players
Speaker 5: came and they still got the same ways of the goat.
Speaker 5: But they know, you gotta be a little more flexible
Speaker 5: in order for this thing to continue. In order for
Speaker 5: us to continue this power structure, we gotta let them
Speaker 5: in and make them think they're doing something you know.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 5: Exactly you can't say exactly. So you got the life
Speaker 5: insurance is one simple way. Everything that we do in
Speaker 5: terms a college, our tuitions. Colleges have endowments, right, those
Speaker 5: endowments are investments in the US stock market. But yet
Speaker 5: those same colleges aren't gonna teach you how to trade
Speaker 5: the US that they're not even gonna teach you how
Speaker 5: to invest in the US stock market. Don't get it wrong.
Speaker 5: Trading and investing is two different things, right, Because if
Speaker 5: I'm trading what my song's doing with me, we're getting
Speaker 5: short term money every day. That's risky. But when you
Speaker 5: talking about Apple, something that is well engraved in your
Speaker 5: life and your lifestyle. When you talk about Microsoft, something
Speaker 5: that we can't operate our phones or our computers with
Speaker 5: pepsi things of this nature, those are long term investments.
Speaker 5: When you put your money into that, you understand that
Speaker 5: you have your money in a long lasting brand. Now
Speaker 5: what you need to do from there is decide how
Speaker 5: long you want to have your money in there. What's
Speaker 5: your plan for having that money? Is it a generational thing?
Speaker 5: Are you gonna pass it down to your kids. What
Speaker 5: are you gonna do with it? Right? But like Soam
Speaker 5: brought up a good point. Were running the challenge now,
Speaker 5: And the main purpose for running it is that I
Speaker 5: understand that once Trump got into office, right, that the
Speaker 5: salesman and the market understands that now people's mentality is
Speaker 5: going to be bye bye, bye bye. I want to
Speaker 5: know about the stock market if you're not already in it.
Speaker 5: And that's what happens. So when you looked at your
Speaker 5: time feed right or your feed on IG, you see
Speaker 5: nothing but people saying I can sell you a course.
Speaker 5: I can sell you a course, I can sell your course.
Speaker 5: It's like it's clockwork. Even Tony Robbins in them right now,
Speaker 5: they're running their stuff. I can come to my conference,
Speaker 5: come to my conference. Everybody who do conferences, it's like
Speaker 5: it's clockwork. So my duty because I know my people
Speaker 5: and we like instant gratification with short term thinkers. Most
Speaker 5: of us are buying into those courses. A lot of
Speaker 5: old people are buyding to those courses. And I get it.
Speaker 5: If some of those guys really know you believe in
Speaker 5: what they're doing, cool, you might just not know what
Speaker 5: you're doing. But most of the people I repeat that
Speaker 5: are trading do not know what they're doing. The wealthy
Speaker 5: trades like this. They take ten percent of their overall
Speaker 5: capital and they trade with it. They don't make the
Speaker 5: short term trades men. They wait for the one to
Speaker 5: two moves up that the market's gonna make every.
Speaker 2: Year, and they put their money in there. That's it.
Speaker 5: That's it. And when you have money already to meek,
Speaker 5: when you have money already, masan, you don't have to
Speaker 5: be so pressed for money. So we would think that
Speaker 5: the gon on Wall Street pulling up in the phantom
Speaker 5: with the security that he knows what me and my son,
Speaker 5: knows what my son's learning. He doesn't. He knows how
Speaker 5: to sell people into allowing them allowing him to manage
Speaker 5: their money. He only wants to do what you call
Speaker 5: beat the S and P five hundred every year. Nobody
Speaker 5: don't know what the S and P five hundred is.
Speaker 5: It is the standar gonna pour five hundred. It is
Speaker 5: a stock market indicator. So what it does is it
Speaker 5: tells you how the market is doing. Why because five
Speaker 5: hundred are the top companies, five hundred out of the
Speaker 5: nine thousand companies that's listing on the market is listed
Speaker 5: in that stop in that index, Apple, Tesla, Netflix, Amazon, Google,
Speaker 5: all the big names you know, Microsoft, Procler and Gamble,
Speaker 5: all Walmart, all the stuff we use is listed in
Speaker 5: that index. That also tells us how our economy is doing.
Speaker 5: So if that, if the stock market is used to
Speaker 5: tell us how our economy is doing, and we're not
Speaker 5: invested in it individually, then how is our household economics.
Speaker 3: Right to explain to them what the exactly what the
Speaker 3: challenge you have right now?
Speaker 5: So right now we got a thirty day challenge. I'm
Speaker 5: teaching people that the stock market is not a myth.
Speaker 5: Trade is not a myth. If my son will tell
Speaker 5: you I'm in there, I'm on all day. I'm telling
Speaker 5: my song. Where the stocks where the prices of the
Speaker 5: stocks that we're looking at us going, and we're making
Speaker 5: money off that. So the whole object is to pretty
Speaker 5: much let people know that it's not hoping, wishing, guessing
Speaker 5: or gambling. It's a skill set. And if you think
Speaker 5: it's anything other than that, you're gonna lose your money,
Speaker 5: and then you're gonna lose your spirit for it, and
Speaker 5: you're probably gonna lose your husband or wife I've had
Speaker 5: no no, no, no, no, no, no like that.
Speaker 4: No, I hear you, because I have friends that are
Speaker 4: addicted literally to trading, like this is what they do
Speaker 4: all day, all day, is it?
Speaker 1: And they lose and they may not know what they're doing.
Speaker 4: Maybe they do, I don't know, but they have they
Speaker 4: have significant issues in their lives because just like some
Speaker 4: people like pills, other people like whatever their their addictions.
Speaker 5: That's their twist. Yeah, And you know the problem with
Speaker 5: that is you know, if you know about something right,
Speaker 5: all right. So given the journey of giving back time
Speaker 5: to the fedes, it's an amazing journey, not just because
Speaker 5: I embarked on anybody who have because that system is
Speaker 5: so complex that in order for you to beat it,
Speaker 5: you got to understand it. So now when I speak
Speaker 5: of FEDS, when people speak in a reform, you know,
Speaker 5: I kind of like, you, like make me cringe because
Speaker 5: do you really understand what the system is about? You know,
Speaker 5: because I know guys that got thirty years and it
Speaker 5: still don't understand the system. I know guys that got
Speaker 5: millions of dollars they're still in there, well, some of
Speaker 5: which Obama let home shout out to them. I ain't
Speaker 5: gonna put their name out, but didn't understand the system.
Speaker 5: The drug lords sat amongst me, How you do this?
Speaker 5: How are you doing this? Yeah? Like this some of them.
Speaker 5: I even use some things from their case to help
Speaker 5: me in my case. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So it's the same thing with the US stock market.
Speaker 5: It's a system. It's an economic system. So if you
Speaker 5: understand it, just generally, you can take advantage of it.
Speaker 3: What I've what I've learned over the last couple of
Speaker 3: weeks just dealing with you, because you always this. Santino
Speaker 3: is very adamant about you doing the study and not
Speaker 3: just listening to what he says. Like he doesn't want
Speaker 3: you to just be there saying, oh, saying what you do. No,
Speaker 3: I want you to I'm giving you this knowledge, and
Speaker 3: I want you to study. Days that you're not on
Speaker 3: here with me. I need you to go take a
Speaker 3: couple hours and look into it and study what I
Speaker 3: said to you, and look at the trade, and look
Speaker 3: at the s P five hundred, all of these things.
Speaker 3: And what I've learned is that wealth in this country
Speaker 3: is generated in this. Like you don't You're not gonna
Speaker 3: get wealth working every day and doing all this people
Speaker 3: make wealth investing their money in this and in the
Speaker 3: stock market, and realist, like, do you have to invest
Speaker 3: your money to acquire wealth? It's not you going to
Speaker 3: work every day and doing the right thing like and
Speaker 3: and that's one of things that I respected about him
Speaker 3: is that he respected what I do so much and
Speaker 3: which you do so much. And he was like, people
Speaker 3: that do what we do should not have to worry
Speaker 3: about finance. That's right, Like we should be able to
Speaker 3: do what it is we do and not worry about finances.
Speaker 3: And his goal is like I want to be able
Speaker 3: to put you in a position to where finances is
Speaker 3: not a thing, so that you can do be on
Speaker 3: the front line doing the work. Then you and Tamika
Speaker 3: do the work that y'all need to do for our people,
Speaker 3: because it is it's a shame.
Speaker 2: That Malcolm X died without money.
Speaker 3: It's a shame that Martin Luther King died worried about
Speaker 3: Marcus Garvey.
Speaker 5: Mark wanted to bring us back. He had no money
Speaker 5: for that. That was serious, you know, would have cost
Speaker 5: a lot, just you know, the espionage part of it, right,
Speaker 5: having a sneak out. You know, you think they wanted
Speaker 5: us to go back. You know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 5: money is important.
Speaker 1: So what are your success stories?
Speaker 4: Like, give us some things that you've done, and you're like, Okay,
Speaker 4: this was when you knew I'm getting somewhere here.
Speaker 5: Well, I kind of knew it when I was in
Speaker 5: incarcerated Informationally, I knew this was something different, and I
Speaker 5: knew the way I was learning it was different, right,
Speaker 5: and the conversations I was having was different. It was
Speaker 5: like I'm telling you, man, that adrenaline rush coming from
Speaker 5: where I come from. Like I'm the puncher teacher and
Speaker 5: the face guy. You know, I got kicked out of
Speaker 5: every school.
Speaker 2: Brother.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, Like, I don't do school,
Speaker 5: and I just want everybody out here to know that
Speaker 5: come from that type of background. Man, it ain't nothing
Speaker 5: you can't do. You just got to buckle down and
Speaker 5: want to do it. So one of my success stories
Speaker 5: is when I first got home and I finally opened
Speaker 5: my account. I got my first check. I was working
Speaker 5: at the Hilton. I was a prep cook at the
Speaker 5: Hilton shot Hills, Right, I got my first check. It
Speaker 5: was like nine hundred bucks. I put five hundred of it.
Speaker 5: I paid my metro PCs. I gave my mother one
Speaker 5: hundred bucks. I'm sleeping on her couch. I forgot what
Speaker 5: I did. I think I was smoking that vape stuff
Speaker 5: at the time. I brought me a vape and then
Speaker 5: I got me. I put five hundred dollars in my
Speaker 5: Tasty Works account and I traded bookings dot com. Back then,
Speaker 5: it was called price line. Y'all know, price line, y'all
Speaker 5: book y'all flights. So price line. Price line at the
Speaker 5: time was like a fifteen hundred dollars a share stock.
Speaker 5: It's still very expensive stock, right, So I put my
Speaker 5: money into it five hundred dollars. I got an option.
Speaker 5: It's called the call option. If you buying a call option,
Speaker 5: you expect price to go up. If you buy put option,
Speaker 5: you expecting price to go down. So I brought a
Speaker 5: call option. I'm expecting price to go up. That five
Speaker 5: hundred dollars turned into seventy two hundred, and I really
Speaker 5: didn't know why to be honest with you, Cause to
Speaker 5: study the options in the stocks and the economics, and
Speaker 5: then to come home and to put it into action,
Speaker 5: it's different. I'm gonna be honest with you though. That
Speaker 5: was my first time seeing money actually transact. I went
Speaker 5: and I looked out the window. I said, no, somebody
Speaker 5: coming for this this can I stopped closing the blonde. Man, listen,
Speaker 5: I'm just coming home. I'm on my mother couch. I said,
Speaker 5: it is about to get real, you know. But even
Speaker 5: then I still didn't have a full grasp on what
Speaker 5: I was doing. You know, I knew more than the
Speaker 5: average joe, but his pockets.
Speaker 4: The difference between reading and learning and experiencing and practicing.
Speaker 1: So you were at the practice point.
Speaker 5: So one of the things my mentor taught me, he said,
Speaker 5: be patient. He said, you know you ain't a patient guy.
Speaker 5: And he said, you're gonna learn who you are trading.
Speaker 5: So he didn't allow us to trade inside the fat well,
Speaker 5: not that he didn't allow us, and he discouraged that.
Speaker 5: He said, don't try to trade in here like the
Speaker 5: rest of these guys. You know, you got your family
Speaker 5: running around picking up that they don't know. Stop it.
Speaker 5: So when he tell those guys that, they don't listen.
Speaker 5: So now you see guys on the walkway wall street quick, Yeah, man,
Speaker 5: my girl in such and such, such and such, and
Speaker 5: he's like, man, I told you, man, you know so
Speaker 5: I always listen. Plus I didn't have the currency to
Speaker 5: do it anyway, you know. I mean I probably could
Speaker 5: have had my people run around to do something, But
Speaker 5: who wants to do all of that at this point?
Speaker 5: I'm changing my life anyway. So when you when you
Speaker 5: change and you're not going back to jail, that's less
Speaker 5: you put on your family. Wow, you start to learn
Speaker 5: to give your family a break. You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Change?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm good talking about this all the time because
Speaker 4: we both have friends that are incarcerated or family members
Speaker 4: and they call you like you you work for them,
Speaker 4: like you know, it's like bossing you around. They mad
Speaker 4: and all the time there's a problem. So you're saying
Speaker 4: they haven't really changed.
Speaker 5: They always want to put in some motion to come home.
Speaker 5: Got some motion, man, some new law came down.
Speaker 1: But I mean, you know, I get it.
Speaker 4: I support that, but I just don't know how it
Speaker 4: became my problem exactly.
Speaker 5: Not.
Speaker 1: It's not even like they're hoping you will help. Is
Speaker 1: a demand?
Speaker 5: What happened to it being a gift?
Speaker 4: Well, my song is different because when his friends start that,
Speaker 4: he knows.
Speaker 1: How to talk to them, because me, I don't know much.
Speaker 4: So then he'll say to me, like, you have to
Speaker 4: tell what is going on here? Like stop, what are
Speaker 4: you doing?
Speaker 5: You're doing too much? Nah? Nah, No more of that,
Speaker 5: because what is he doing there? You gonna understand God's
Speaker 5: being all type of stuff in jail. They taking their
Speaker 5: family money, they buying drugs, they gambling, they doing all
Speaker 5: type of stuff. So you know, go on and on
Speaker 5: about it again. So again change starts where you stop
Speaker 5: putting so much on your family and you realize it
Speaker 5: ain't their fight, bro, and you realize they shouldn't have
Speaker 5: been codding on you in the first place. Because my
Speaker 5: friends who family didn't call on them, they ain't go
Speaker 5: back to jail. I got a cup. Matter of fact, eight,
Speaker 5: that's a con story. Listen to a con story. His
Speaker 5: mother told him, you got one call, your father said,
Speaker 5: who you want? He go back to jail. He became acon.
Speaker 5: So and this is the thing we called it. It's okay,
Speaker 5: it's okay.
Speaker 1: It's hard though, it's very hard. It's very difficult.
Speaker 5: No, it's hard.
Speaker 4: It is especially it's hard because you can't you know,
Speaker 4: we have a friend right now who her son did
Speaker 4: something so stupid. I mean, it's just so stupid and
Speaker 4: he's doing time. He really this and I'm watching his
Speaker 4: growth as she posts video photos after visits, and you
Speaker 4: can see that he grew up a lot from when
Speaker 4: he first got there. When he first went in there,
Speaker 4: I couldn't sleep. And he's not even my child, because
Speaker 4: I know this boy was a little like kid, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean, And now he's growing up. But
Speaker 4: I know she hardly sleeps because she's worrying about.
Speaker 5: I mean, I can only imagine, man. I mean, I
Speaker 5: watched my mother get older every time she went up there.
Speaker 5: You know, my mother just beat cancer. And I really
Speaker 5: truly believe that federal situation because my brother in law said, man,
Speaker 5: I don't want to put none on you, but your
Speaker 5: mother starts smoking so much when you was in that
Speaker 5: federal situation.
Speaker 4: Because every day the TV is telling you, I mean,
Speaker 4: look at Robert Brooks, look at what just happened to
Speaker 4: this man.
Speaker 1: They beat this man to death.
Speaker 4: I called my friend immediately after that video came out
Speaker 4: of the police at Marcie Correctional Facility beating on this man,
Speaker 4: because I know that's her worst fear and she was incarcerated.
Speaker 4: While being incarcerated, she went through a lot of things,
Speaker 4: sexual assault from CEOs, just everything, you know, not being able,
Speaker 4: you couldn't give food unless she was willing to do
Speaker 4: certain things in the jail. She went through a lot,
Speaker 4: and so for her son to go there, it's the
Speaker 4: worst thing ever, It's the worst thing for her. I mean,
Speaker 4: she's she feels worse. I think she's she feels worse
Speaker 4: about him being there than if she had never been incarcerated. Really,
Speaker 4: and I know when she saw that video that it
Speaker 4: was probably gonna make her lose her mind. And of
Speaker 4: course she's like scared to death. Went to visit her
Speaker 4: son the next day, like is anything happening in here?
Speaker 4: And his position at this point is like it doesn't
Speaker 4: even make sense for us to talk about it because
Speaker 4: you can't do anything for me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, wow, Wow, it's something. And Mike, you know,
Speaker 5: from you know, like especially over here in New York,
Speaker 5: like the stories we hear over here, from real stories
Speaker 5: from guys that have been over there, Like the way
Speaker 5: the corrections is ran. You know, it's lawless, it's barbaric.
Speaker 5: It's almost as if they get the same kind of
Speaker 5: people that we are to watch over us.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what this.
Speaker 5: See what I'm saying, Like they find it's like they trainer.
Speaker 5: You got to be a certain caliber. You know, the
Speaker 5: state the southern State prisons in New Jersey, it's the
Speaker 5: same thing.
Speaker 4: And the further you get upstate, you're basically dealing with
Speaker 4: people who.
Speaker 3: I had that used to come to just come to
Speaker 3: our unit just to fuck with me. Like it was
Speaker 3: to the point, but he wasn't smarter than me. So
Speaker 3: I would just go into my inside my cuban just
Speaker 3: not come out. His whole shift, his shift would be
Speaker 3: me reading books, writing music.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't even come out.
Speaker 5: Ain't that amazing how we found all way in there?
Speaker 5: You know how many of us got the same story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it was to the point where the other
Speaker 3: CEOs that used to came, the other CEOs that came
Speaker 3: on after him, one of he was like he was
Speaker 3: like the meanest CEO, but he he have respect for
Speaker 3: me because I was in the dorm for like three years.
Speaker 2: You know, I conducted myself.
Speaker 3: I pretty much controlled the doing, but not on a
Speaker 3: bullsh but I made sure it was all in the dorm.
Speaker 2: I made sure we all got along. Ya ain't fighting
Speaker 2: over no TV.
Speaker 3: We're gonna we're gonna live in his house properly, and
Speaker 3: he knew I moved like that. So he went to
Speaker 3: the CEOs like, yo, why are you messing with him?
Speaker 3: Like he don't funk with nobody like leave. He told
Speaker 3: him leave him alone, to the point where one night
Speaker 3: he came on a shift and apologize to me, like, yo,
Speaker 3: I apologize to mess with you.
Speaker 2: Officer told me how good you are?
Speaker 3: I apologized and he shook my hand and I never
Speaker 3: had an issue with him after that.
Speaker 5: Un Listen, man, I got from downstate where CEO's got,
Speaker 5: you know, and these are these are knownly racist places, right,
Speaker 5: And I've seen gang members who taken payments from officers
Speaker 5: to jump on other inmates because they're putting in grievances
Speaker 5: on CEOs, They're putting in a grievance for the whole unit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Robert Brooks situation has exposed a lot that
Speaker 4: we already knew about. But one of the things that
Speaker 4: they said is that like in places like Marcie and
Speaker 4: other prisons upstate, one of the biggest problems that they
Speaker 4: have is the CEOs selling drugs and having the the
Speaker 4: incarcerated individuals. We don't say, inmates, the incarcerated individuals selling
Speaker 4: drugs for them, which creates all types of drama in
Speaker 4: the jail. So they're like, if we could get the
Speaker 4: drug dealing, Like these are actual people who are incarcerated saying,
Speaker 4: if we can get the drug dealing under control, things
Speaker 4: could calm down here.
Speaker 1: But it's basically being running like you out on the street.
Speaker 5: Exactly, you know, exactly listen, it's lawless man.
Speaker 4: Now do you think if would you say that you're
Speaker 4: in a place in life where you would tell a person,
Speaker 4: let me put this other thing in your hand.
Speaker 1: Because one of the things that.
Speaker 4: My son and I always talk about is if we're
Speaker 4: out here telling people stop the violence, and you know,
Speaker 4: he's like, I need to offer them something, like I
Speaker 4: gotta have something else. You can't just tell a kid
Speaker 4: put the gun down and you'll give them anything. Would
Speaker 4: you say that what you offer is something else to
Speaker 4: pick up?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Definitely, definitely. It's something that you know, me from a
Speaker 5: psychological standpoint, it feeds you know, they said out ADHD
Speaker 5: or ad D whatever it's called. It feeds that for me, yeah, right,
Speaker 5: and a lot of us they claim we suffer from it.
Speaker 5: I call it geniusness right, because definitely all the people
Speaker 5: who said America, look for the people with a d
Speaker 5: d adhd are and look with the people who said
Speaker 5: they had add ADHD. Look where they are. And I'm
Speaker 5: not no smiteing nobody. Don't forget what you call you know,
Speaker 5: don't forget me.
Speaker 1: That's funny.
Speaker 4: My son, he's like, I got eight, told somebody the
Speaker 4: other day I have ADHD.
Speaker 1: So I'm dealing with a lot of things, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean.
Speaker 4: You know, I remember once time when he was young,
Speaker 4: he was like, do they have you keep saying I
Speaker 4: have it? Where's the medicine or something?
Speaker 5: You know it's but it feed it? Does it feeds you?
Speaker 5: I think if if kids, if kids do learn this
Speaker 5: at younger ages, like learning this lets them know there's
Speaker 5: nothing else you can't learn. So with age what age
Speaker 5: early as possible. I think mice know he was in
Speaker 5: the challenge. I tell the people that's in the challenge, like, listen,
Speaker 5: don't run the kids out of the room. Kids should
Speaker 5: be on your lap. They should be hearing this, subconscious
Speaker 5: having it, yeah, entering it should be Yeah, it should
Speaker 5: just be there. It's background noise for them because that's
Speaker 5: how they gravitate towards you. You can't force nothing on
Speaker 5: nobody because then they'll reject it and won't get back
Speaker 5: to it Untilday thirty five or I remember my father
Speaker 5: used to be on my mother used to be trying
Speaker 5: to give me this. Now you back on it. No,
Speaker 5: if depending on who you are, if you ain't running
Speaker 5: them away from it. Oh, get out of this room, boy, No,
Speaker 5: come in this room. You're looking. Oh, come in you
Speaker 5: can see what I'm doing. You know, that type of thing,
Speaker 5: and it'll resonate on them. But as far as kids
Speaker 5: is concerned, yes, the youth, the kids from the hood,
Speaker 5: the ghetto, the underprivileged kids. Yes, they should be learning
Speaker 5: this skill set. Me and him already talked about it.
Speaker 5: You know, once the school and everything is established, we
Speaker 5: definitely have to run some sort of curriculum to do
Speaker 5: there because this has to be in every household, because
Speaker 5: every household have these very same products stacked.
Speaker 1: Up in their household, right, the things that you're trading, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, using it, So anybody else is in this big
Speaker 5: reciprocal system of money, because that's all it is. Money
Speaker 5: is a reciprocal tool. It's never off the grid. Every
Speaker 5: bit of money's counted for. There's nothing off the grid.
Speaker 5: That's why they don't like counterfeit, right, because now you're
Speaker 5: messing up the circulation. So who's circulating the most is
Speaker 5: the question? Who's getting the most out of it? So
Speaker 5: you circulate it just to acquire assets, So who's acquiring
Speaker 5: the most assets? Right? Like Mysan said, you know, even
Speaker 5: I speak to some of my homies this in the
Speaker 5: rap game, and I say, you know, you already know
Speaker 5: if you go do something, you're gonna get money in
Speaker 5: exchange for that. Or if you got royalties of music
Speaker 5: out there, or publishing rights, you're gonna get mechanical license,
Speaker 5: whatever you got, you're gonna get money in exchange for that.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: But what happens to that money after you get it?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: Because if you don't wake up and go get those things,
Speaker 5: I don't know how your situation working, but the checks
Speaker 5: may slow up, you know exactly. So now what you're
Speaker 5: doing is you guys can't even fathom flipping money because
Speaker 5: you don't have to flip money to make money. So
Speaker 5: you guys are in saving mode, and which is what
Speaker 5: most of America's in saving mode. Our parents just save it,
Speaker 5: just save it, save it. What you saving for you
Speaker 5: don't save you put it to work. You save a
Speaker 5: percentage because you never know what's gonna happen. Cash is
Speaker 5: always good at some point, right, coins, gold, whatever you
Speaker 5: can have if you at that point. But for the
Speaker 5: most part, we need to have money circulating while we're sleeping,
Speaker 5: circulating because if you're waking up, what are you waking
Speaker 5: up to do.
Speaker 2: To get money?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the work and if you if you, if
Speaker 3: you're going to sleep, and that's the that's a conversation
Speaker 3: that a lot.
Speaker 5: Of you gotta pay you, you gotta pay you back.
Speaker 5: You get enough to go, So why you sleep? Wouertain
Speaker 5: it to you.
Speaker 2: Having that conversation with wottain it to you money.
Speaker 3: Your money should be making you may while you dollarge
Speaker 3: monthly will.
Speaker 5: Make money while you were sleep. Last night, I woke up.
Speaker 2: I woke up and was like, Oh, this is what's
Speaker 2: going on. It's then jumped up.
Speaker 5: So that's that's the whole thing. That's the whole point,
Speaker 5: you know. It's it's like I said, back to the
Speaker 5: simple systems, right insurance, real estate, trust, trust.
Speaker 4: I had to learn trust, buy hell fire because my
Speaker 4: mom had a stroke and she was in the hospital.
Speaker 4: And then of course, you know, first of all, so
Speaker 4: many of our people and I was one of those people,
Speaker 4: knew nothing about what to do when the person is
Speaker 4: not deceased but they're incapacity.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because you're that's going to have had that conversation.
Speaker 4: Well, it's a tough I mean from a business perspective,
Speaker 4: because it's like, I don't know that. I guess we've
Speaker 4: never been taught that you are a business. Just you
Speaker 4: by yourself, Now tell ma what you do. Just so
Speaker 4: about you walking around. It's a business because even if
Speaker 4: you die, if anybody cares about you, it costs money
Speaker 4: to Burra. You're a product, right, And so so with
Speaker 4: my mom's situation, you know, she being incapacitated but not
Speaker 4: deceased means that decisions can't be made on her behalf,
Speaker 4: certain decisions, even by her husband. And then she wakes
Speaker 4: up from and that that's where the trick because when
Speaker 4: she was in a coma, he could make any decision.
Speaker 1: She was very incapacitated.
Speaker 4: As soon as she woke up, the power was no
Speaker 4: longer in my father's hands and they were asking her
Speaker 4: questions while she clearly is not even able to understand
Speaker 4: everything that's going on, And we had to figure out
Speaker 4: the power of attorney, which means nothing at some point.
Speaker 1: It really is not.
Speaker 4: You need a will, you need a trust, you need
Speaker 4: all of those things. Because even with the powers.
Speaker 5: Somebody to come in and handle your affairs, yees. So
Speaker 5: the principle of that, right, what's gonna come in and
Speaker 5: handle help you handle those affairs? When that happens, you
Speaker 5: see what I'm saying, because it does get tricky, She's right,
Speaker 5: And then it gets tricky amongst your.
Speaker 4: Own family, well it does, and thank god, in our situation,
Speaker 4: it's very streamlined because it's not that many of us,
Speaker 4: and also the way that they raised us. But nonetheless,
Speaker 4: I could see where because I'm the youngest, if my
Speaker 4: sister who's older than me, was an asshole and she
Speaker 4: decided to run stuff, who knows what would have happened,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So it was a lot.
Speaker 4: And my dad here, he is, his wife, he's been
Speaker 4: married to her almost fifty years.
Speaker 1: She has a stroke out of nowhere. One day.
Speaker 4: He wants to be broke down. But you can't even
Speaker 4: you can't even break down.
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
Speaker 4: You can't even cry too much because it's paperwork moving
Speaker 4: and people shifting and decisions being made. So the best
Speaker 4: thing to do is to do all this stuff in
Speaker 4: advance while you're healthy, so that when when and if
Speaker 4: God forbid, something happens, things just kind of kick into
Speaker 4: place and I just you know, not.
Speaker 5: Anything we don't have. Things may happen later. Man, We
Speaker 5: know all most stresses, ninety percent of stress is tied
Speaker 5: the money. We live in a money pressured world, like
Speaker 5: that's where we live. We're pressured to have money, right,
Speaker 5: you have to have money. You gotta have money. So
Speaker 5: so just think about it. If you know your trust
Speaker 5: is in play with somebody to run it, if you
Speaker 5: know you got life insurance, if you know you got stocks,
Speaker 5: if you know you ain't got to break your neck
Speaker 5: to pay a bill or figure out where you're going
Speaker 5: to get money from, and some for some people that's unfathomable.
Speaker 5: Some people can't imagine being that caught up in life.
Speaker 5: But when you are that caught up in life, that's
Speaker 5: going to have years to your life, unless you know,
Speaker 5: depending on what else you're doing on the side. But
Speaker 5: if you're that type of person to have those things
Speaker 5: in order, then you got other things in order in
Speaker 5: your life as well, unless somebody set it up for you.
Speaker 5: You see, know what I'm saying, because we talking LLC
Speaker 5: or some type of corporation, right, We're talking trusts, and
Speaker 5: a lot of people hear these things in combination and
Speaker 5: they're like, oh, here they go talking that again. But
Speaker 5: it's real. These are the secrets of the wealthy. You
Speaker 5: want to hide your taxes, figure out the corporate structure.
Speaker 3: You heard what Trump said, Yeah, I just figured I've
Speaker 3: used it. The lords y'all made to hide my money.
Speaker 5: Listen, I've been telling people from day one. You know,
Speaker 5: I get it, you know, and I understand that. You know, people,
Speaker 5: people have a people have interest in the political situation, right.
Speaker 5: But what I was telling people from day one, That's
Speaker 5: why I said, this is the Trump rally challenge. Because
Speaker 5: while everybody else is paying attention to everything else, he's
Speaker 5: coming in. There's nothing we can do about it. What's next?
Speaker 5: What's next is right? If our money was right, we
Speaker 5: ain't got to worry about picking between two people. We
Speaker 5: put people in the ourselves, right, because it's people who
Speaker 5: putting people win there. But it takes money to do that.
Speaker 5: It takes money to do that. So now that he's
Speaker 5: in office, let's get what we're supposed to get. Let's
Speaker 5: get that money, because it's gonna be a Trump rally
Speaker 5: in a lot of different markets, not just a stock market.
Speaker 5: And he's gonna make sure that the stock market get
Speaker 5: is just due because he's invested in it and he
Speaker 5: still haven't relinquished that yet.
Speaker 1: Him and his old boy and Elon.
Speaker 5: It's a whole bunch of them. It ain't just them.
Speaker 5: They all band together for him. They they're all gonna
Speaker 5: eat and we gotta eat too. It ain't nothing to
Speaker 5: be emotional about. You cannot strategize with emotions. We've been
Speaker 5: emotional long enough. It's time to get to the money.
Speaker 5: It's time to understand the more wise money. That's right,
Speaker 5: It's time to understand the money. So that's what the
Speaker 5: whole challenge is about. The first the first twenty days,
Speaker 5: twenty eight days after Trump came in, we ran a
Speaker 5: test play. We said one thousand dollars to fifty thousand
Speaker 5: dollars traded options right in thirty days. We got the
Speaker 5: fifty seven and twenty six days off one thousand dollars.
Speaker 5: So that so we were trading options. We came up
Speaker 5: with a challenge. I said, all right, I know Trump.
Speaker 5: You know he's gonna get in office, right, and when
Speaker 5: he do, no matter what president gets in, we get
Speaker 5: some type of rally. But when Trump gets in, we
Speaker 5: get an astronomical rally, right because of the sentiment, meaning
Speaker 5: the mentality.
Speaker 1: Of the people got money.
Speaker 5: He's a businessman, he does you know, and some some
Speaker 5: moves he do make is good for business. But all
Speaker 5: in all, people just automatically think that, right. So all
Speaker 5: the retail investors. There's two types of investors. Institutional investors
Speaker 5: which is banks, insurance companies, college endowments, and then you
Speaker 5: have retail investors. That's me and you, me and you
Speaker 5: could have one hundred million dollars investor. We're still retail
Speaker 5: investors unless we're managing money of some sort or we
Speaker 5: got institutional size money coming in, then we'll consider retail investors.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: So the retail investors, they know Trump coming in, they
Speaker 5: don't have too much knowledge. They trade on news, so
Speaker 5: they're gonna jump in the market. So what happened. Tesla's
Speaker 5: stock price went up forty eight dollars in one night
Speaker 5: on Trump news. Coin Base fifty dollars in one night.
Speaker 5: Bitcoin went crazy. Micro Strategies which is a company that's
Speaker 5: just based on buying bitcoin, but they're publicly traded stock.
Speaker 5: This see and this is what we all understand about
Speaker 5: the money. There's a company that we're killing right now.
Speaker 5: I don't kill he done made some money off of it.
Speaker 5: Micro Strategy stocks go by ticket symbols. So the ticket
Speaker 5: symbol is mstr micro Strategies company based is buying bitcoin.
Speaker 5: That's it. That's their corporates, their business model, that's what
Speaker 5: they do.
Speaker 1: So they're buying it from people, buy.
Speaker 5: Whatever, whatever markets is available. That's their business model. They
Speaker 5: have billions of bitcoin and that's what they do.
Speaker 1: If you want to sell your own personal.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you can sell whatever you buy. You can
Speaker 5: sell whatever you buy. But bitcoin is tricky. You gotta
Speaker 5: have actual ledgers. Your ledger may look like this phone.
Speaker 5: You can lose your ledger, you lose your bitcoin. And
Speaker 5: I'm not saying bitcoin is a bad thing. I just
Speaker 5: haven't made that transition yet. People say, hey, saying why
Speaker 5: you don't invest in bitcoin? Well, if I got a
Speaker 5: system that's allowed me to take thirty forty thousand dollars
Speaker 5: a week. Where do I need to go chase bitcoin?
Speaker 5: It's about finding your things. People. Problem is they want
Speaker 5: to hear about this, hear about that, and hear about this.
Speaker 5: I just seen one guy's advertise me. He was like, Yeah,
Speaker 5: you get the money from the options and you put
Speaker 5: them over here in insurance and you do this over there. Yo.
Speaker 5: Chill bro, chill bro. Yeah, they do need insurance, but
Speaker 5: don't make them hustle so much. Let them find one
Speaker 5: thing that makes the money, get the money off that.
Speaker 5: Then you funnel other small bits of money into those streams, bro,
Speaker 5: But don't make it so complicated. Yeah, people here, if
Speaker 5: you already made a hundred thousand a week in the
Speaker 5: stock market, right, what do you need to go try
Speaker 5: your hand with bitcoin for?
Speaker 1: Because you can lose.
Speaker 3: Every basketball player And if somebody tell you to go
Speaker 3: invest in football, you like, for what.
Speaker 2: I know all about basketball. I know all the games.
Speaker 3: I know that, I know what Lebron gonna score, I
Speaker 3: know when he ain't playing, I know the spread.
Speaker 2: I know everything about this. So I'm invest my money in.
Speaker 5: What I know exactly, because it's about setting yourself up. See,
Speaker 5: it's about whatever game you want to play. Right, if
Speaker 5: you want to play the game. I got a career,
Speaker 5: I have things going on. I'm a professional, I do this,
Speaker 5: I'm an entertainer. Then you want to find things where
Speaker 5: you can invest in them and they will pay you
Speaker 5: short term like that. You don't got to worry about it.
Speaker 5: You got you know, you got cover call strategies, which
Speaker 5: is pretty much if you own one hundred shares of stock, right,
Speaker 5: I could sell you an option now, my son, right,
Speaker 5: and I sell you a weekly option, and when it expire,
Speaker 5: I keep the money that you pay for your option,
Speaker 5: just like we lost the options there. Yeah, we lost
Speaker 5: a couple options. But yeah, I'll let him tell y'all
Speaker 5: he's up, he's up. But yeah, we don't. You lose.
Speaker 5: Don't let nobody tell you you don't lose. It's about
Speaker 5: managing your wrist.
Speaker 2: You got to win more than you lose.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I may lose three trades and lose let's
Speaker 5: just say, for instance, three thousand dollars, right, But then
Speaker 5: I may put up one thousand dollars and win a
Speaker 5: trade for twelve thousand dollars. So on my down, did
Speaker 5: I lose?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: So it's not about winning every trade. It's about winning
Speaker 5: at the right time and protecting the capitol once you
Speaker 5: do win. So now you win the twelve thousand, and
Speaker 5: you know that's all you got. Now you put that
Speaker 5: twelve thousand on one trade the next time, God bless you.
Speaker 5: You know you're trying to build Rome in one day,
Speaker 5: you know, and that's not what you do. You lay
Speaker 5: the foundation. So if you know you got a system
Speaker 5: that you make ten thousand dollars a week, start from
Speaker 5: that foundation. You see what I'm saying. And then what
Speaker 5: you can do is if myan make a trade, if
Speaker 5: we take an option, right, the option has a price,
Speaker 5: so pretty much this is what options are. Options allow
Speaker 5: people to control one hundred shares of a particular stock
Speaker 5: for a cheaper price. So let's just say JP Morgan's
Speaker 5: trading that two hundred dollars a share. You're gonna have
Speaker 5: to pay twenty thousand dollars four hundred shares a JP Morgan.
Speaker 5: You could control an option contract which allows you exposure
Speaker 5: to one hundred shares of JP Morgan for probably one
Speaker 5: thousand dollars. But here's the catch. You didn't buy it
Speaker 5: out right, so you can't hold on to it forever.
Speaker 5: So options have expirations, so you have a certain amount
Speaker 5: of time. So now let's say JP Morgan's trading at
Speaker 5: two hundred dollars per share, and you say, okay, I
Speaker 5: think JP Morgan's going to two twenty, So you will
Speaker 5: buy a two to twenty call option on JP Morgan
Speaker 5: with an expiration of let's say thirty days. They give
Speaker 5: you a list of expirations, you can't make up your
Speaker 5: own date, and you pick from those expirations. It's a
Speaker 5: strategy to it. Every expiration means something different, every strike
Speaker 5: price means something different. If you're gonna trade this game,
Speaker 5: you have to know how to gauge where price is going,
Speaker 5: meaning where that stock price is gonna be.
Speaker 1: Now, if in the middle of all of this.
Speaker 4: Chase fires, you know, or you know, like just to
Speaker 4: show I saw that McDonald's this is happening, like breaking
Speaker 4: in this moment, McDonald's has decided to dismantle their diversity division.
Speaker 4: So now you got all these people that's mad as
Speaker 4: hell about it. So let's say that really means something
Speaker 4: in the world. It will temp is about exactly because
Speaker 4: you know whatever, So then it might go down. So
Speaker 4: then what what do you do if you're holding the
Speaker 4: shares already and now they have a problem.
Speaker 5: Well, if you're holding the shares already, let me just
Speaker 5: clear up something. Nothing happens like that in the market.
Speaker 5: You know, people think markets, they think crash, Oh my god,
Speaker 5: everything down to our recessions and depressions are strategized. They're
Speaker 5: induced and they happen because people cause them. So when
Speaker 5: markets go down, understand what we're talking about. We're talking
Speaker 5: about a stock market. There's two actions in the market,
Speaker 5: buy and sell. If those two actions can be completed,
Speaker 5: it's not a market. So in order for me to
Speaker 5: buy something, it has to get cheap enough for me
Speaker 5: to buy it. So what has to happen. People sell
Speaker 5: to make things cheaper. Because the more you sell something,
Speaker 5: the more that product goes back to the market as
Speaker 5: if nobody wants it. So more people sell, more people sell,
Speaker 5: what's happened, and the price is getting cheaper. So markets
Speaker 5: have contingencies in place. They have parameters in place for where,
Speaker 5: let's just say, when they may say, oh, Warren Buffett
Speaker 5: just sold this apple position that happened ninety days ago,
Speaker 5: you know, or thirty days ago, or it's happening incrementally
Speaker 5: because the way the market's designed. Warren Buffer can't wake
Speaker 5: up today without filling out paper and getting the right
Speaker 5: proper going through the proper steps to sell ten billion
Speaker 5: dollars worth of Apple. It can't happen in one day.
Speaker 5: So there's things put in place so that you have
Speaker 5: companies that have suffered news and go down astronomically fifty
Speaker 5: percent in one day, sixty percent in one day. But
Speaker 5: it's telegraph like you said, you'll see that coming. It's
Speaker 5: not like you're gonna wake up and your stock that
Speaker 5: you've been owning, your whatever stock it is is going
Speaker 5: to just be down sixty percent, and you didn't see
Speaker 5: that coming. So I know a lot of people think
Speaker 5: that's how it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because that's why older people are like, I don't
Speaker 4: mess with that.
Speaker 5: But they do mess with it because they're four one
Speaker 5: ks and four three b's is.
Speaker 1: Full of stocks and they have no idea.
Speaker 5: And they have no idea. I know for sure. I
Speaker 5: had a family member who said, Yo, my father got
Speaker 5: one point two million in his retirement fun and he
Speaker 5: didn't even know it. Can you explain to him what
Speaker 5: it is? Yeah? I know what it is. He had
Speaker 5: a stock and that stock price was very like this
Speaker 5: thirty years ago.
Speaker 4: Now it's like this, but can how does he get
Speaker 4: some of the one point three million dollars?
Speaker 5: Oh, he gets all of that, that's his.
Speaker 1: But could he get it now?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's once you retire. That once you resire, Yeah,
Speaker 5: that goes over into your retirement accouncil. What they'll do
Speaker 5: is you probably roll it over into an investment account.
Speaker 5: Roll over means you roll it over to another account,
Speaker 5: so you can avoid fees, right, and penalties if there's
Speaker 5: some there, or you know, for some even taxes because
Speaker 5: you might retire, but you might not want to just
Speaker 5: have the money. You might want to keep the stock right, right.
Speaker 4: So that's a lot of different things that go into it.
Speaker 4: And so would you say to someone who's listening, because
Speaker 4: you know, people think everything is easy.
Speaker 5: I heard that, or at least we hope it is.
Speaker 1: You know, I could do that.
Speaker 4: Would you say that there's a lot of learning that
Speaker 4: goes into it, or can somebody just start and learn
Speaker 4: as they go along?
Speaker 5: I would say learn from somebody to know what they're doing,
Speaker 5: because then they can give you their experiences so you
Speaker 5: can avoid the pitfalls. Right, some things you're just gonna
Speaker 5: go through right. Investing in trading will tell you who
Speaker 5: you are right. It will tell you if you're greedy.
Speaker 5: It will tell you if you lack discipline. It will
Speaker 5: tell you if you impatient. It will tell you. And
Speaker 5: I have lost money significance amount of money. You understand,
Speaker 5: and I you know you talk about you know one
Speaker 5: of my success stories that you talk about. You don't
Speaker 5: want to talk about the stock. But I think you
Speaker 5: should reverse that, and I think you should be talking
Speaker 5: about it. Why should he be the only one eating
Speaker 5: off of it?
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm not saying. I'm not saying that people shouldn't
Speaker 4: do business.
Speaker 1: But it's just.
Speaker 5: Certain up here, and it's patronized. No, I know you're
Speaker 5: gonna never get up here and big them up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, certain things.
Speaker 4: Yeah, certain certain people who don't understand exactly won't understand
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, Like, Oh, they don't changed up.
Speaker 5: They don't, they ain't change up. They just they always
Speaker 5: was on the money. Don't get it twisted. They know
Speaker 5: you heard what they said. You know it has to
Speaker 5: be a follow up. It's got you know, you pull
Speaker 5: a person off the corner where you're gonna send them
Speaker 5: to McDonald's. That's back on the corner. That is the corner.
Speaker 5: That's the corner for somebody else, it is it is,
Speaker 5: it's the corner. It's the corner. Because like how many
Speaker 5: people out of ten people are gonna say, you know what,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna put it down to McDonald's and I'm gonna
Speaker 5: own one one day, It's only gonna be one of.
Speaker 2: Them gonna wake up and see.
Speaker 5: And they know that. You know people, you're gonna quit
Speaker 5: the first. So the whole thing is is this, Yes,
Speaker 5: it does take studying, but I would say learn from
Speaker 5: somebody that has a good foundation. Make sure that people
Speaker 5: showing you trades, because we suffer now with social media,
Speaker 5: with being able to have access to everybody at one time,
Speaker 5: it didn't used to be like that.
Speaker 4: That's the same thing when I work, people think that
Speaker 4: they could do what we do exactly.
Speaker 5: So now think about it, right, So now you have
Speaker 5: these weirdos that you would never have met in your life.
Speaker 5: They're all in one place to see you. Now. I
Speaker 5: put a post up recently about bank of what was it,
Speaker 5: TD Bank, and I'm trying to show people how you
Speaker 5: know who the real crooks are, Like they're they're making
Speaker 5: money off us in so many different ways. So one
Speaker 5: guy said, man, you sound like you the police. I said, brother,
Speaker 5: I can't possibly be the police because I beat the police.
Speaker 5: I dragged the police in the courtroom, I said, the
Speaker 5: federal police. To be exact. You know, I gave all
Speaker 5: mind back. I said, when brothers like you with that mentality,
Speaker 5: y'all still there. Unfortunately, I said, because you think like that,
Speaker 5: you're not even seeing a bigger picture. I said, and
Speaker 5: I'm gonna disregard your disrespect. That's it, because you need help.
Speaker 2: We had to learn that.
Speaker 3: It wasn't always like man, you call me police, man, police.
Speaker 3: Was that that's somebody gets somebody to kill you, jail,
Speaker 3: somebody you get immediately.
Speaker 2: Oh man, the men you call somebody police.
Speaker 5: And if they really is police, you better be ready
Speaker 5: to go because them the ones that hurt you, because
Speaker 5: they're gonna try to pretend they go, they go, they go.
Speaker 5: You know, they men just like everybody else. They just
Speaker 5: you know, see jay Ree was out there killing people,
Speaker 5: that's right, and he was the biggest police. That's right.
Speaker 1: I cannot we can sit here.
Speaker 2: Oh damn, listen, it's a pleasure.
Speaker 3: It was a long time coming, you know, we're gonna
Speaker 3: we're gonna bring you up again after after we make
Speaker 3: our first million, we're gonna bring up here.
Speaker 5: We can talk about that.
Speaker 2: We're gonna walk them through it.
Speaker 1: Everybody got their call and he can do it.
Speaker 2: Told I'm gonna do it. Let me, I'm gonna teach.
Speaker 1: You, and said, and I said, you know.
Speaker 5: Just give her, give me one about sixty day. I
Speaker 5: told her. But from a long term standpoint, it's nothing
Speaker 5: to learn what we're doing. You have to learn. From
Speaker 5: a long term standpoint. What you need to know is
Speaker 5: your You need to use your deepest logic. Seriously, Yeah, seriously.
Speaker 5: If you're watching the news and they say, oh, Visa
Speaker 5: just felled eighty dollars because their system got hacked, go
Speaker 5: buy Visa. Is Visa going anywhere?
Speaker 1: No, they're gonna have a come back.
Speaker 5: You're gonna go swipe Visa the minute the newsreel is over. Right,
Speaker 5: as you get you tell people that, hey, what do
Speaker 5: you think about Facebook? And Facebook is going down? I said, well,
Speaker 5: y'all better get in Facebook. This was five hundred dollars ago,
Speaker 5: by the way, I said, y'all better get in Facebook. Facebook.
Speaker 5: Y'all listen to the news if you want to. I said,
Speaker 5: you watch the news segment about Facebook on Facebook, So
Speaker 5: why what are you talking about? Hold your Facebook? Six
Speaker 5: months later, Facebook five hundred dollars richer. You see what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. So it's about patience. It's about you just
Speaker 5: knowing that this is where the money's going. And if
Speaker 5: you know that, then you're gonna take your money out
Speaker 5: of that bank who's doing the same thing I'm telling
Speaker 5: you to do and giving zero points zero percent, not
Speaker 5: even a four percent back because that's the national and
Speaker 5: federal rate. They're gonna give you that bare minimum because
Speaker 5: he's hiking rates up and they can't make money anyway
Speaker 5: like that. You see what I'm saying, Because they make
Speaker 5: their money between what they take in, what they borrow,
Speaker 5: and what they lend. They get money in between the spread.
Speaker 5: So if they if they if they if they lean
Speaker 5: one dollar and they ball too, they make one wow.
Speaker 5: So with the interest rates up, they're not making no money.
Speaker 5: So it's just about understanding the system. It's much easier
Speaker 5: to get a loan from a bank than it is
Speaker 5: to rob. You only need a fully loaded credit score, that's.
Speaker 1: It, instead of a fully loaded gun.
Speaker 5: That's it.
Speaker 1: That's the title of the episode, How.
Speaker 3: You go send you No Wise Money, Drew, make sure
Speaker 3: tell them where to find you at.
Speaker 5: Oh, you can find me at Wise Money Academy on
Speaker 5: Instagram one word Wise Money Academy. W I S E
Speaker 5: A C A D E M. Why I think I
Speaker 5: spelt it right? Also Real Money Experience. We also got
Speaker 5: the Trump Rally challenge going on right now. By the
Speaker 5: time they hear this, I guess it'll still be going on.
Speaker 5: You know. Again, again, we ain't supporting Trump. We ain't
Speaker 5: support nobody but ourselves. But we do know how to
Speaker 5: engrave ourselves in that process so that we can have
Speaker 5: our way too. That's what it's about, you know. So
Speaker 5: he's gonna be that for four years, and what we
Speaker 5: gotta do is capitalize on it. Yeah, maybe maybe, you.
Speaker 2: Know, might do twelve.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that.
Speaker 5: He might be permanent now I.
Speaker 4: Don't know about that either. I think it might be
Speaker 4: on a shorter end than you think.
Speaker 5: Well, here's my predictions before I go. In ten years,
Speaker 5: it's gonna be two companies, Amazon and Tesla. Which one
Speaker 5: you want? President Trump is going to remain President Trump.
Speaker 5: It's not even gonna be called president no more. He's
Speaker 5: gonna be a dictator and that's pretty much it. Oh
Speaker 5: Elon Musks gonna be a trillionaire too, and he's probably
Speaker 5: gonna try to force the brain chips on the show.
Speaker 5: So I'm with her, I'm with the Queen. Yes, I
Speaker 5: don't support him as a man. I don't support his quest,
Speaker 5: but we have to use his process to get our
Speaker 5: money right so we can design our own process. And
Speaker 5: that's been the goal since day one. Trump Rally Challenge
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Speaker 5: cheap way to get to a big bag. I really
Speaker 5: do what I say.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 5: You heard my son definitely wouldn't bring me up here
Speaker 5: unless my song stamp me first and man hearing hearing
Speaker 5: your voice on Young j Z album that was early
Speaker 5: in me coming home. I used that. I used that song. Listen.
Speaker 5: I got up, did my little first seminars man five people.
Speaker 5: I was only teaching five people with the library. I
Speaker 5: listened to that first.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: I am in charge, but he's in charge.
Speaker 5: Too, no doubt.
Speaker 2: We run the show.
Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you, thank you all for having me.
Speaker 1: Santino Drew, that's right, cool, thank you.
Speaker 4: I'll learn one day you will. I just you know,
Speaker 4: like why y'all just can't do it.
Speaker 1: For me, because because I lose my money exactly.
Speaker 3: So we want you to understand everything that got going
Speaker 3: on with your money. So when you listen, But okay,
Speaker 3: that's all right, so you feel comfortable and confident.
Speaker 4: I just want to wake up one day and my
Speaker 4: bank account has the money in it that I need.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the press.
Speaker 1: That's all I want. I don't want to have to
Speaker 1: work for everything.
Speaker 2: But this ain't really working. This is what you're already.
Speaker 1: You'll be telling me all day. Can't talk right now.
Speaker 2: I'm doing no because.
Speaker 3: I'm doing options. He what he's telling you to do
Speaker 3: is just long term investments.
Speaker 2: Me.
Speaker 3: I'm taking a little bit of I'm taking a couple
Speaker 3: of thousand, I'm saying, and I need that I need,
Speaker 3: but I'm flipping it. Once I flip it, then I
Speaker 3: can teach you how to flip flip flip. But right now,
Speaker 3: you take about a lump sum and you put it
Speaker 3: into something that's big, and one day you wake up
Speaker 3: and it be done roads five hundred percent. That's what
Speaker 3: happened with bitcoin. Like people invested in the money and
Speaker 3: next to you know, the one day it was up
Speaker 3: five hundred dollars, So every dollar you had, you multiply
Speaker 3: times five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Well, that's what I'm saying. Okay, okay, So that's that's.
Speaker 2: The key to it.
Speaker 3: So you just got to know that whatever you invest
Speaker 3: in is going to go up.
Speaker 2: That's it. I'm telling you. It's a process, but it's
Speaker 2: worth it.
Speaker 4: I all listen, the brothers obviously very knowledge about and
Speaker 4: passionate about what he does. I you know, I understand
Speaker 4: his position on the Trump thing. You know, because while
Speaker 4: Donald Trump is president, we can't die. He go crawl
Speaker 4: up in the corner. Life still has to go on.
Speaker 4: But I still ain't promoting no T words on this.
Speaker 2: You know, I get it, and I'm not mad at you.
Speaker 3: But the reality is the way we realize is that
Speaker 3: these people with the T words is making millions of
Speaker 3: dollars and bends and dollars of our people. These people
Speaker 3: are the T word is damn a trillionaire. So it's
Speaker 3: like if we if we don't when we're talking.
Speaker 1: About the.
Speaker 2: Word with the.
Speaker 1: Hilarious joke, but the.
Speaker 2: Gonna die this clip right here, the event the.
Speaker 1: Teeth that's so funny.
Speaker 2: It's funny. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So what the bottom line is that, you know, we
Speaker 3: live in America, capitalist society and people gonna make money,
Speaker 3: and what Santino has been saying, it's like, why won't
Speaker 3: why don't we make money to be able to fund
Speaker 3: our people properly and do the things.
Speaker 2: We need to do.
Speaker 4: So I'm so happy you make very much in gont
Speaker 4: get it, don't get it?
Speaker 5: Very intentional get it?
Speaker 1: Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, Now before I get into my I don't
Speaker 3: get it, I want to promote my new book. Shout
Speaker 3: out to my publisher McBride McBride Publishing, And the new
Speaker 3: book is called Echoes in the Streets and it's a
Speaker 3: children's book. This is my third one and it debuted
Speaker 3: number one on Amazon last week. So we want to
Speaker 3: say thank you because it's our third book that has debut.
Speaker 3: Like we've been doing really good with children's book.
Speaker 1: We're doing good in the children.
Speaker 2: We really are. You know, my book, my book is
Speaker 2: gonna be crazy.
Speaker 3: But these children's books, it's a passion for them, you know,
Speaker 3: for me, like I have a passion for these children's books.
Speaker 3: You know, I didn't really I always wanted to teach,
Speaker 3: but these books are like my way of teaching.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: In this book right here is dear to my heart
Speaker 3: because of the work we do a boycott Black Murder.
Speaker 3: You know, Echoes in the Streets is about gun violence
Speaker 3: and how the community addresses gun violence. And it shows
Speaker 3: how we can't address gun violence to youth, you know,
Speaker 3: community leaders, you know, educators, How do we combat it
Speaker 3: and how do we unify unify as a team to
Speaker 3: combat gun violence. And it's different stories and we're gonna
Speaker 3: be doing a series of them about different stories that
Speaker 3: are realistic from different communities, different states, because you know,
Speaker 3: gun violence is all over this nation and each you know,
Speaker 3: each state has a different story in a way that
Speaker 3: gun violence happens in the states that appeals and touches
Speaker 3: the individuals in that state to where they can identify it.
Speaker 3: So that's what we want to do and we feel
Speaker 3: like it's a real dope strategy to combat gun violence.
Speaker 3: So shout out to McBride and McBride Publishing for this book.
Speaker 3: It is it is probably it's one of my favorites.
Speaker 3: I mean, all of them are my favorite, but it's
Speaker 3: one of my favorites because I understand how important this
Speaker 3: book is.
Speaker 2: So we're going to be doing our tour.
Speaker 3: Like I said, it's debut number one on Amazon the
Speaker 3: first week, and I'm just I'm.
Speaker 2: Proud of it.
Speaker 4: Echoes from the streets, echoes in the streets, that goes
Speaker 4: in the streets, that goes.
Speaker 2: In the streets.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm proud of you too.
Speaker 3: So you ain't the only one out here doing books
Speaker 3: and stuff. You know, you got your book coming out.
Speaker 4: Books graphics are great, Yes for the book, And I
Speaker 4: see the work that you guys put in. McBride is
Speaker 4: a very very intentional individual. I see some of the
Speaker 4: other projects he's putting now, he's really killing a game,
Speaker 4: especially in the Yeah.
Speaker 2: Listen to me. He's the truth.
Speaker 3: He is the truth, and he's he's unpassionate, he's intentional,
Speaker 3: and he pushes me like, you know, we need a
Speaker 3: new book.
Speaker 2: Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 3: And you know, he is good that you have somebody
Speaker 3: that motivates you like that, you know, and and it's
Speaker 3: willing to do the work. He just wants you to
Speaker 3: do all the work. As soon as you said you
Speaker 3: want a book, he come out.
Speaker 2: You know, he go to the artwork for it.
Speaker 3: You ready and I be okay, now I got Now,
Speaker 3: I gotta get it.
Speaker 2: Execution.
Speaker 1: You need somebody else to go ahead and bring.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm one of us gonna bring this stuff, but
Speaker 3: we're gonna always be intentional about doing the work. So
Speaker 3: make sure that you go out get that book on Amazon,
Speaker 3: Echoes in the Streets.
Speaker 2: It's about gun violence in the community, and it's a really.
Speaker 3: Dope book, and it's for children from probably about age
Speaker 3: three up, and it's it's pretty much like a family.
Speaker 3: But most of my books, even though they're children's books,
Speaker 3: the family, I've seen a.
Speaker 1: Lot of people purchase your book for the whole families.
Speaker 3: And when you sit there and read it, it's things
Speaker 3: that you learn, it's things that you enjoy, you identify with.
Speaker 3: So make sure you go get that book.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: One of the things we have to figure out is
Speaker 4: how we can not use Amazon for stuff.
Speaker 1: Because it's like, on one hand, we'll be fighting.
Speaker 4: Amazon for all of their egregious behavior, but then both
Speaker 4: of our books, Amazon is a big part of the success.
Speaker 4: Like if you don't if people don't purchase books in
Speaker 4: masks through Amazon, they've cornered the market. So much that
Speaker 4: it's difficult to make many of the different lists out
Speaker 4: here that really kind of stamp your book to for
Speaker 4: so it can continue to grow and do well.
Speaker 1: And we got to just figure out, like what.
Speaker 2: You figure out, how do we control our own destiny?
Speaker 2: And it's hard.
Speaker 4: Bonds and nobles is a thing, but even still, it's
Speaker 4: not the Amazon fast market, and it's got to be
Speaker 4: a way to deal with that. I don't know who
Speaker 4: got the answers. That's a micro Dison question. We got
Speaker 4: to call him up and ask him.
Speaker 2: If he gets the answer to that, then we're gonna
Speaker 2: be good. Now. I don't get it.
Speaker 3: What I do not get is the congestion prices in
Speaker 3: New York City. We are so broken New York people
Speaker 3: ain't got two pities.
Speaker 1: What man?
Speaker 2: People listen to.
Speaker 1: People have money.
Speaker 3: People elected Trump because they said eggs and bread was high.
Speaker 2: They said they couldn't afford eggs and.
Speaker 1: Bread, they couldn't afford I argued, did.
Speaker 2: They not say that?
Speaker 3: The people not say that they couldn't afford eggs and bread?
Speaker 3: Trump and people said that. And when I said it
Speaker 3: to you said.
Speaker 1: Right, no, that's not what happened.
Speaker 2: What happened?
Speaker 4: What you said to me, was that eggs and bread
Speaker 4: is not that important, okay?
Speaker 1: And I said, yes, eggs, okay.
Speaker 2: If eggs and bread is important.
Speaker 4: But I don't think people people. I think people are
Speaker 4: I think that you're right. People might not be able
Speaker 4: to afford eggs and bread. You know why because they
Speaker 4: going to concerts and buying shoes, bags and whatever else
Speaker 4: and having dinners at fancy places and experiences. People are
Speaker 4: not as broke as they're telling.
Speaker 2: Man is broken.
Speaker 4: I they said that they.
Speaker 2: On the credit card, they buying it on the credit card.
Speaker 1: Listen to me, pay the credit card and they don't.
Speaker 2: People don't pay the credit card. Looks people are scamming.
Speaker 1: There's certain types of credit cards you have to pay.
Speaker 2: Every money every day.
Speaker 3: The scammers that are all the time high they putting
Speaker 3: it on for six months. People ain't got money to
Speaker 3: be going. Listen to me. The mt A an easy
Speaker 3: Past is the biggest con artists in the world.
Speaker 2: They should be having a reco charge. It's no way
Speaker 2: the way. The amount of money that I paid the
Speaker 2: easy pass is unbelieve. I can't believe it.
Speaker 3: And then they got it to where when you go
Speaker 3: to the easy pass, they tell you to replenish, and
Speaker 3: then they tell you you can't just give them what
Speaker 3: you want to give them.
Speaker 2: You can't.
Speaker 3: You try to say, I'm put one hundred fifty to
Speaker 3: say no, no, no, gotta put two hundred fifty. You gotta
Speaker 3: put three. You be like, what what are you even
Speaker 3: talking about? And then if you if it's automatic replenished,
Speaker 3: if you replenish that two fifty last time, if you
Speaker 3: if you you go through the easy pass one time
Speaker 3: more than you did, it'll replenish that three fifty next time,
Speaker 3: and then it replenished at four and four fifty, and
Speaker 3: next thing you know, you'll be confused, like, wait, I
Speaker 3: the coolest money went. These people are crazy and these
Speaker 3: people are running a scam. This congesting price makes absolutely
Speaker 3: no sense. If you want people not to go in
Speaker 3: the city, then then don't have places for them to park.
Speaker 3: I'd rather you do not have places. And then when
Speaker 3: you go to the city, you still gotta pocket. You
Speaker 3: gotta charge people sixty dollars. People is paying sixty dollars
Speaker 3: for parkt that's already a congested price. That's already a
Speaker 3: congestin you're paying sixty seventy dollars apart for one and
Speaker 3: two who hours, So you gotta pay nine dollars a
Speaker 3: change to get into the city and then pay fifty
Speaker 3: to sixty dollars the park, and then if you outside
Speaker 3: on the meter, they charged you like fourteen to fifteen.
Speaker 2: Dollars an hour depart. Like it's crazy.
Speaker 3: It just doesn't even make It makes zero amount of
Speaker 3: sense that you keep on raising these prices. Didn't burnt
Speaker 3: the lady up on the train. Now you're forcing people
Speaker 3: to go on the train.
Speaker 1: Another and white supremacists on the train whatever they're doing.
Speaker 3: Daniel Petty is out here. So you forced the black
Speaker 3: man onto the train. And you know what, we ain't safety.
Speaker 5: This is.
Speaker 1: A robbers and the white supremacist.
Speaker 3: We ain't got a chance man and the rat whoever,
Speaker 3: and the rats and the rat the train got the
Speaker 3: white supremacist, the rats, like.
Speaker 2: The kid said the robber, The rats go crazy, the.
Speaker 1: Throw in front of the train people, the burn up people.
Speaker 1: Everything you could think of.
Speaker 2: Is down on the We ain't gonna make it.
Speaker 4: No, but the congestion pricing, I think it's I think
Speaker 4: it's really messed up.
Speaker 2: It's I'm not a lot.
Speaker 4: I do want to see first of all, I think
Speaker 4: congestion pricing is all about making it more convenient for
Speaker 4: rich people to be able to do their business peacefully,
Speaker 4: right because their trucks are delayed getting wherever they needed
Speaker 4: to get for deliveries. They are these business people are
Speaker 4: riding around trying to go to their meeting. They need
Speaker 4: to make it in fifteen minutes, and they can't get there,
Speaker 4: and they and and really it's all New York is
Speaker 4: all about the convenience of people who have money. So
Speaker 4: I don't agree with congestion pricing from that perspective. And
Speaker 4: I also do not think with all of the stress
Speaker 4: for real, for real. We was joking earlier, but people
Speaker 4: are stressed. Daycare is high.
Speaker 1: Food is high. I don't think people can't afford it.
Speaker 2: You don't think they can't, No, because I see how
Speaker 2: people live.
Speaker 1: I see how people live.
Speaker 2: People live.
Speaker 4: We all above mere means y'all live above people.
Speaker 2: If you can't afford.
Speaker 4: It, you're buying. Because let me tell you something. There's
Speaker 4: a Popeyes that's blocks away from my house. The line
Speaker 4: is wrapped around.
Speaker 2: All day people trying to eat.
Speaker 4: No, it's not just people trying to eat, because if
Speaker 4: you go to the store and get you a bag
Speaker 4: of chicken or a thing of chicken. It's gonna maybe
Speaker 4: cost you, I don't know. I'm gonna say twelve dollars,
Speaker 4: thirteen dollars. These people, that's the problem. That's the problem
Speaker 4: if you buy a bag twelve or thirteen dollars, even
Speaker 4: if it's twenty dollars for a bag of chicken, which
Speaker 4: is outrageous. But let's just say it's tway dollars for
Speaker 4: a bag of chicken, which is high.
Speaker 1: These people are going.
Speaker 4: To the Popeyes two times a week, getting a twenty
Speaker 4: box with this, that and the And when I say,
Speaker 4: like you said, when I say people, I'm not talking
Speaker 4: about I don't buy Popeyes anymore. Not because I'm protesting
Speaker 4: properes because I love me some Popeyes, but just because
Speaker 4: it's just it's not healthy.
Speaker 1: But people are spending money on what they want to
Speaker 1: spend it on. When I'm out and I'm out with.
Speaker 4: My girlfriends who are complaining about the costs of everything.
Speaker 4: Their hair is polished, baby, their nails are wonderful. I
Speaker 4: have one friend, and you we know who this friend is.
Speaker 4: This friend is always complaining about she's struggling, she going yeah.
Speaker 4: When I tell you her nails is the best nails
Speaker 4: I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: It don't matter.
Speaker 4: People is so like my father used to say, why
Speaker 4: y'all don't know how to do your own hair?
Speaker 1: How come y'all because.
Speaker 2: Don't come from that.
Speaker 3: Your father grew up in the school of do for self.
Speaker 3: We pour, we gonna make, we eat Lord, we cooking
Speaker 3: food with Lord, and bacon, fat back and all that.
Speaker 2: This. They grew up in that era. We ain't grew
Speaker 2: up in it.
Speaker 1: We grew up with most of the figure out how
Speaker 1: to go back.
Speaker 2: My mama was the last mama that I know. These
Speaker 2: mamas ain't cooking in the house cooking today.
Speaker 4: All I am saying is that I think people are
Speaker 4: stretched very far broken. I don't think and I don't
Speaker 4: agree with that. I think people are stretched very far.
Speaker 4: I think opportunities for ownership and otherwise in the city
Speaker 4: of New York has become so difficult for the average
Speaker 4: person to attain that it's out of control, and I
Speaker 4: think it's criminal. Right, So I agree with you that
Speaker 4: the city and the way in which we are living here.
Speaker 1: Is not right.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying that I think everybody's doing wonderful. I'm saying, yes,
Speaker 4: there's struggles and we're stretched, but we also live above
Speaker 4: our means, and if we figured out ways to live
Speaker 4: where we are more, where we have more collective responsibility
Speaker 4: for one another, like, for instance, you could trust somebody
Speaker 4: to actually watch your child and you don't have to
Speaker 4: spend two thousand dollars a freaking month for daycare.
Speaker 1: We don't do that.
Speaker 2: That means.
Speaker 3: Because the realities of what's going to cause for us
Speaker 3: to actually live inside New York.
Speaker 2: We don't have it.
Speaker 3: So we living beyond our means to actually live a
Speaker 3: life and have some level of joy. That means people
Speaker 3: is poor.
Speaker 4: We in God would say, Okay, I'm not gonna argue
Speaker 4: with that, but I just want to make my point
Speaker 4: on congestion pricing.
Speaker 1: But I'm getting that. I think that there.
Speaker 4: Is a big problem with congestion in this city because
Speaker 4: I'm one of the people that wants to get to
Speaker 4: my meeting in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: I know it's bougie, but hey, that's just my reality.
Speaker 4: I'm one of those people that cannot stand having to
Speaker 4: be in behind fifty sixty ubers, fifty sixty yellow calves,
Speaker 4: and regular people and everything else, and the trucks all
Speaker 4: at one time. I don't want to do that. It
Speaker 4: makes me very aggravated and frustrated. So I understand, howsoever, howsoever.
Speaker 4: I think there's enough money moving around in this city
Speaker 4: and in this state that this congestion pricing plan does
Speaker 4: not have to be what they impose on us. I
Speaker 4: think that there needs to be more done to look
Speaker 4: at the money that we waste on things like some
Speaker 4: of the policing that they still They got all the
Speaker 4: police on the train. The police are on the train.
Speaker 4: The train and the lady got burned up, and the
Speaker 4: cops was right there, right there. So I just don't
Speaker 4: I think that there's better ways to go about what
Speaker 4: they're trying to do.
Speaker 1: But I know this.
Speaker 4: I was in the car in the uber one day.
Speaker 4: I was on my way taking my parents to the opera.
Speaker 4: As yes, black people are going to the opera. I
Speaker 4: just want y'all to know, and I'm not saying I'm
Speaker 4: at the opera watching all white people sing.
Speaker 1: There are amazing.
Speaker 4: It was Malcolm XA that we went to see at
Speaker 4: the opera and it was amazing. So we were on
Speaker 4: our way there and while going down the traffic, which
Speaker 4: should have took us, like, let's say, an hour to
Speaker 4: get from home to the city, was like a two
Speaker 4: and a half hour day.
Speaker 1: Again, congestion.
Speaker 4: So the uber driver now becomes our friend because we're
Speaker 4: in this car for all of this time together, and
Speaker 4: we start talking about congestion pricing and how we're gonna
Speaker 4: deal with the traffic in the city.
Speaker 1: And you know what he said to me, it's not.
Speaker 4: That people won't pay because they still going where they're going,
Speaker 4: and they're still gonna get to the city in the
Speaker 4: ways in which they always have done. They're still gonna
Speaker 4: do what they're doing, and they're gonna pay the price.
Speaker 4: But what's gonna go up is robberies.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, people.
Speaker 4: Crab because people not going to spend money, and then
Speaker 4: you living well and having cocktails that you can get
Speaker 4: to in fifteen minutes and they over here struggling.
Speaker 1: That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Man, So it's gonna be hell to pay.
Speaker 3: Man, y'all better figure it out, because people ain't gonna
Speaker 3: just be messed up. People not gonna just starve, man.
Speaker 3: Some damn congestion prices, y'all.
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