WEBVTT - A Loaded Credit Score vs. A Loaded Gun 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:00.840 I'm Tamika D. 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:03.480 Mallory and it shit Boy my Son in general. 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:05.119 We are your host of TMI. 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:08.920 T Mika my Son's Information, Truth, Motivation and. 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:16.440 Inspiration, New Energy. What's going on, my Son, Lennon. 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:18.360 It is twenty twenty five. 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:25.639 I am feeling beautiful because this is the year of execution? 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:28.440 Is that what you're how you're claiming that's so. 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:29.160 I'm claiming it. 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.040 Like you know, I woke up this morning, well, I 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.479 woke up on New Year's and I said to myself, 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:37.879 I'm tired of the New Year's resolution and we're going 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:41.240 to be all at And I've realized my biggest problem 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:44.920 is execution, right is that I have so many ideas. 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:46.960 I have so many things I want to do, and 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:50.800 I'll start and I think a plan, and then somebody 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:52.400 don't give me the energy that I want, so I 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:54.680 don't do it. Or I come to people and they 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:56.880 don't feel like they don't you know, like they don't 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:00.280 feel enthused about it, and I don't execute fully. I'm like, 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:02.840 I'm not doing that, no more, like no more. This 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:05.679 year right here, I'm executing every idea and plan that 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:07.800 I have because especially when I'm believe in it. 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:09.760 So this is the year of execution for me. 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:12.200 You know what, when I listen to you say that, 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:16.200 it's kind of like one of the I hear one 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:19.360 of the challenges in what you just said, and that 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:23.280 is I'm executing every single plan, and every single plan 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:26.760 never gets executed by anybody. What we have to do 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:31.320 is prioritize of the things because we're very creative individuals. 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:33.959 And so if I said I'm going to execute every 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:37.440 single plan that it comes to my mind, I don't know. 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:39.880 I'm not saying every idea I'm talking about plan. 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.600 Once I make a plan and I say boom boom boom, 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:44.600 I'm doing this and doing this, then it's going to 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:47.200 be fully executed because I have a thousand ideas, and 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.200 every idea is just you know, sometimes you come to 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.120 somewhere I got idea, and they don't go nowhere. 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:51.920 You forget it. 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.880 But once I make a plan that I it's went 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:57.920 past the idea and now it's a plan I'm executing. 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.000 When lose a drawer, it's going to get executed. 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:01.240 And I think that. 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:06.000 I see because first of all, you have executed a 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:09.600 lot of things, and you've been able to bring certain 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:15.040 concepts from start to finish for many years that we've 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.360 been working together, and so I don't want you to 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.840 think like, you know, you don't get these things done, 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:24.120 because you actually do, and you keep the team moving 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:27.000 in ways that we all kind of get things done together. 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:29.880 I mean, even being at the place with this podcast 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:32.240 that we're at today has a lot to do with 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:36.639 execution and you being the driving force for making this happen. 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:40.480 So I think that's important to say. I would say 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:44.200 that I don't I think execution is a. 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.160 Part of the issue. 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:50.200 But if I had to give you advice for twenty 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.760 twenty five and what you would need to do in 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:56.400 order to execute execute is to follow up and to 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:00.480 pay attention to your messages to people who are out 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:02.840 to you, to get back to people, and to stay 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:06.160 in tune with the work, because that I think is 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:08.800 one of the biggest problems for all of us, and 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:10.919 I certainly see it when it comes to a lot 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:13.200 of the men that I work with, that the world 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.320 is coming at you and you're trying to respond to 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.480 so much as crazy things going on online you got, 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.480 you know, you're trying to balance out and make sure 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:25.400 you teach and all of that. Meanwhile, the role to 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:29.480 actually being successful and the programs is embedded in your team, 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:34.800 and you have to nurture those relationships to the point 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.760 that every day you're talking to your team more than 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:39.920 you talking to people on the internet that you don't know. 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:44.320 That is what will make the difference in terms of execution. 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:45.440 That's my opinion. 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.720 I think that's I don't think your area of problem 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.920 is not executing. I think that you have to reduce 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:55.760 the amount of time that you talk to the unknown 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:57.960 and spend more time talking to the known. 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.560 Well, I just think I need to reduce who's talking 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:02.880 so I hear what. 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.840 You're saying, but it's not you do you do? 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.200 You have to talk to people because the only way 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.960 to be able to get folks because people everybody has 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:15.240 a million things going on. So when you go to 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:17.480 somebody and you say, hey, I think we should do 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:21.760 such and such thing, that's true, we should do it, right, 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:22.640 but we all have. 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:24.160 Fifty million things going on. 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:28.680 The next thing is an email that's like, hey, you know, 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.320 I think we should do X y Z. Here's the 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:34.200 stuff that needs to happen. Blah blah blah blah blah. Okay, now, 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.040 I'm setting up a conference call so that we could 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:40.520 talk about and break down all the pieces. Who's responsible 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:45.560 for what. That's an execution plan, if you will. It's 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.360 not so much that people are not excited about it 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:52.080 is that we as leaders have to bring our people 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:55.320 along in the process because nobody, not you, nor I, 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.040 nor anybody else is going to get it all done 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:01.640 alone but people. And that's something that I've learned as 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.719 I have been a manager of multiple teams and I've 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.960 had staff working for me for a long time. Folks 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:11.599 are only going to work at your ideas or your 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.560 concepts as much as you feed into them. 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.800 And that's what I mean. So it's about executors like 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.560 understanding what it takes to execute. Like like you said, 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.560 if understanding that all right, there's a team project that 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:27.320 I want to happen, I'll bring into the team right 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.919 knowing that, Okay, now I have to build division. 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.280 I have to create division because they like, oh okay, cool. 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:33.719 But like you said, it's a lot of things that 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:35.960 everybody has going on, So now I have to do 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:40.080 the necessary steps that it takes to get everybody on board. Maybe, 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:41.560 like you said, it might be a call, it might 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.159 be responding to the text saying, hey, lookten, this is 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.480 more send an email out whatever it is. I'm going 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.400 to make sure that these things are executed because the 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:52.920 thing about it is that the plans that I have, 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.839 most of the ideas that I have, I watch come 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:59.479 to fruition with other people, people that just take with 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:03.160 you and they steal what you say. You give an 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:05.520 idea and they steal it and they run with it, 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:06.839 and they don't do as good as a job, but 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:08.800 they actually get something done out of it, and people, oh, 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:10.839 this is and I'd be like, that was my whole 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.640 plan and my idea. So if I if I don't, 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:15.839 you know, if I don't execute on a plan, I 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.520 can't be mad at somebody else who sees the idea 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:20.880 and takes it and runs with it. So now my 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:24.240 whole thing is this year right here. I know there 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.400 are a lot of ideas, Like it's about five or 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:30.400 six things that I know that should have already been 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:34.120 executed that you know that can be monumental and historical. 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.560 So it's like, I'm going to execute those plans. 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:38.440 I believe you to. 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:41.240 One of the things that I know about you is 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.240 when you say you're gonna do something, you do it, 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.040 and that's a real thing. That's the one thing I 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:50.279 will say is that whether you drive us crazy while 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:54.240 doing it, you say, oh, we're gonna do YouTube, and 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:58.360 every Sunday I gotta hear from you. Tag the tag it, 0:06:58.520 --> 0:06:59.920 tag it, push it out. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:01.320 Why didn't you promote it? 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.000 So one thing is when you are in it, you 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:05.160 be in it. 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:05.880 That's it. 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:06.680 That's all good. 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.160 And speaking of executing plans, I mean, it's so perfect 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:14.200 for my thought of the day today. You know, I'm 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:19.320 obviously this book is coming. It's a it's a baby, okay, 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.440 and it's crowning. It's right there. It's getting rided up, 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:24.040 come out. It's here. 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:26.640 This book is here. I Live to tell a story 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:27.800 is out everywhere. 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:32.840 On February eleventh. I know, I said, I said, Toya 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.720 LaToya Bond. Let me give her credit. She's the one 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:39.080 that worked with them to get some imagery from my 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.920 photo shoot because I was complaining in the photo shoot 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:44.480 I didn't hardly do none of the stuff. 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:46.080 Right that I was supposed to do, but they did 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:46.480 get it. 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:51.200 People have been asking who was the creative mind behind 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.840 the hairstyle. So you know, I have straight backs on 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.320 one side with your braid's corn roads for anybody who 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.720 doesn't know. And the other side is half of a 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:01.800 bus us down. A bus down is just your hair 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:05.360 straight with the part in the middle, and it represents for. 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:07.440 Me who I am, you know. 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:11.640 I on one hand, I got the whole roundaway girl piece, 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.680 and that's my true nature. You know, I'm out here 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:19.160 as an organizer where you gotta twist it up and 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.400 you can't be trying to be too fly while you're 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.960 out here organizing and moving, especially you know, when we're 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.600 out in the south and in the summer and the heat, 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.120 that's what the straight backs, that's where those have always 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:35.760 been most comfortable for me. But I'm also a girly girl, 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:38.439 right and so when you put those two things together 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:43.920 for me, I couldn't find another way to have the 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:48.040 cover represent all of who I am without those two 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:50.800 images being there at the same time. So I came 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.520 up with the idea and I gave it to the team, 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:55.880 and between LaToya and. 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.360 The and Kareem the gentleman who. 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:03.120 Was the director of the shoot, and all the other individuals. 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.440 I mean, it was so many people involved, stylists and 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:09.360 hairstylists and makeup and all of that. They made it. 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.920 They brought it to life, and I love it. I 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.040 love the cover and I'm hearing from people they love it, 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.400 and the photo shoot was amazing and all of that. 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.240 So thank you for saying that, because I knew when 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.120 they posted it. Just so y'all know, I don't post 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:25.360 everything on my page. I woke up on Sunday morning 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:27.880 and there was a post up there and people were talking. 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.280 And then when I spoke to you, I said, oh, 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:31.600 did you see the. 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.040 Promo? And you were like, no, what is it? 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:37.280 Then you called me back, You're like, oh, I like this, 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:39.040 and you guys did good. 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:39.520 That's it. 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.520 This lady does not like to promote herself. She hates 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:44.520 to put up video. I'm like, yo, you do so 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.160 many things and you need to promote it. You need 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:51.240 to have videos showing certain things, especially you're promoting the book. 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.600 You're doing a lot of things and a lot of times, 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.200 you know, the key to everything is marketing. Like you know, 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.400 one thing shout out to Jamilla that she always says 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:03.080 it David, doctor JAMILLERTI David. She said, if it ain't 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:04.320 on camera, it ain't recorded. 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:05.080 That it ain't happen. 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.400 So a lot of times I have to force her to, like, 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.800 you'll put this video out, or what happened to the 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.240 footage from Natural? I'm not putting that up. And I'd 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:16.320 be like, I don't understand why. I don't understand why 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:17.680 you don't want to put a footage. 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.920 Well, because I you know, and this is off topic 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:24.240 from my thought of the day. However, one of the 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.079 reasons that one of the things that I'm going to 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.640 have to work through more in twenty twenty five. 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:32.160 You say it's the year of execution. 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:36.800 I have to be in the year of celebrating my 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:40.559 wins and celebrating the work that I do and making 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:44.520 sure that the world knows because I do so much 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:47.360 every day that people never get a chance to see. 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.080 But one of the things that I will tell you 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:56.400 is that after the Women's March, I realize people were 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.480 pushing me every day to be in front of a camera. 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.880 People push me to post things, to talk about our success, 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.839 to talk about my personal success, to tell our stories. 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:08.760 And I did that. I leaned into it as much 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.520 as possible. I wasn't all the way comfortable, but I 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:15.400 did and I watched people go from celebrating you and 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.559 being right next to you, right there in the mix 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:22.440 with you, promoting to the point where the person who 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:27.600 was the owner of the PR firm representing me once 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:31.360 I had controversy never even contacted me again. 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:32.600 Throughout the whole thing. 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:35.640 Shit was burning all around me, and he never picked 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.360 up the phone to call and say, hey, are you okay? 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:39.880 Is there anything that I could do? 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:41.960 He didn't even pick up the phone to say I 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:45.760 don't want to work with you anymore. And so from 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:50.760 that from my perspective, and just to be clear, prior 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.760 to the Women's March, while there were some moments where 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:58.760 I was pretty public, I was a writer in Essence magazine. 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.440 I had a lot of different things going on. I 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:05.520 always tried to stay under the radar. My boss, Reverend Sharpton, 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:08.800 he was more of the public personality and we were 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:10.600 behind the scenes, and he used to push me too, 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.080 like you gotta get out there, you know, talk about 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.840 your work and talk about your work, and you know, 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.040 he was adamant that I needed to take the column 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.960 in Essence so that my ideas would come to life 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:24.200 and all of that, and that people would see that 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:26.280 I was more than just a cute girl who works 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:29.600 for sharp than who's a good assistant type, although I 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.599 wasn't his assistant by that point, but you know, he 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:36.120 wanted people to know that I had actual contribution to 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:38.040 the movement, and so he pushed me to do that. 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.719 But he was still the face and I was in 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:46.920 the background. Once the Women's March came to be, I 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:51.240 became the face in terms of being the most high 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.000 profile black woman at the Women's March. 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:55.720 And we see where that went. 0:12:56.120 --> 0:13:01.760 It turned out that I was ridiculed and and and uh, 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:06.960 demoralized and just just everything I can't It's. 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:12.120 It's like an American gangster. When the mob god was 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:13.640 talking to Frank, he said, what are you gonna do? 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:15.760 Your success? Took a shot at you. What are you 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:17.280 gonna do? Become unsuccessful? 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:19.719 Right? He said, you can you can have you can 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:23.199 be successful and have enemies, or you can be unsuccessful 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.000 and have friends. And it's it's very and I understand 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:30.440 what you're saying, because you know, it's crazy how people 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:32.840 root for you when you're the underdog, right, they root 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.040 for you, and then as soon as you reach you 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.400 not the underdog no more. You actually get the notoriety 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:42.080 that you deserve. People want to they want to tear 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:42.920 you down right. 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:46.520 Well, as soon as you hit a moment where, especially 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:50.480 where white people say ooh ooh, you're in trouble, then 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:52.760 everybody's like, oh, let me back up or for you, 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.600 because you know, I've been through other stuff where black 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:57.960 people didn't like me for some reason or another, and 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:01.040 guess what, it was fine, like, you know whatever. But 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:05.000 when white folks decide that you've done something that steps 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:09.800 in their area where they are either upset and or 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:14.160 uncomfortable with how you're moving, that's when you see even 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:16.880 a lot of your own people trying to separate themselves 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:20.160 from you because they don't want to also be associated 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:22.280 with whatever you have going on. 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:24.880 And since I experienced. 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:27.760 That, I kind of went back to what works for me, 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.360 which is to do the work. Every now and then 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.840 I pop out. But for the most part, I don't 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:38.400 like to have the appearance that I am self and grandizing. 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.080 I don't even know how you say that, but y'all 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.200 know whatever, people know what I'm talking about. 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.680 I don't like to do that anyway. 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:49.720 Because I have a book that is coming out now, 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:53.760 I have no choice but to be more public, to 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:57.240 post more things, to speak in more places, and to 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:01.200 rely on team members and other pe people around who 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.240 always want to promote me and always want to help to, 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:09.480 you know, make sure that all of our work is 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:13.920 on front Street so that we can sell books, because 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:17.400 ultimately that's what we want, not just to sell the books, 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:19.680 but for people to be inspired. 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:19.960 By the story. 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:21.960 Because if you inspired by the story, you're gonna buy 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:24.640 a book, right, So that's what that's the goal. 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:26.400 And it made me think. 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.240 Over the holiday, I had one convers I had two 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:34.480 conversations with two individuals who want me to hire them 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:39.280 as super publicists basically for a short period of time 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:41.400 to help me work on the launch of the book. 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:45.120 And as I sat. 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:48.280 With just listening to them and thinking about what went 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:53.280 on in the conversation and then thinking about past publicists 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:56.480 and others that I have worked with and teams that 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.960 I've worked with, I wanted to share this thing because 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:04.400 just so people know my history is not just being 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:08.880 a public speaker and an activist. I also have always 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:14.479 been a part of the machine, the operation behind organizations ideas. 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:20.280 I worked with Global Hue Advertising and helped to work 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:25.400 on some of the major campaigns that they did with big, big, big, 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:30.320 big big corporations. Right, I've done all of that and 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.920 been sort of again behind the scenes. So I know 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:36.360 a lot about management. I know a lot about pr 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:41.040 I know a lot about these individuals who claim. 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:43.160 That this is the work that they do. And here's 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:44.400 my thought of the day. 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:50.720 For any manager, publicist, stylist, whoever you are out there 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:55.600 that's taking people's money telling them that you're going to 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.200 help to manage some part of their lives or their 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:02.120 life or their career. Stop doing that if you really 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.520 don't know how to do it. Stop doing that if 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:04.960 you really. 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:06.480 Don't know how to. 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:11.520 Because I feel like what makes a good manager, a 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:16.160 good publicist, a good stylist. These are people who can 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:19.400 do for you what you can't do for yourself. If 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:23.560 all you are doing as a brand manager or as 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:27.760 a publicist is getting phone calls that come into you, 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:32.199 and you facilitate the arrangements of it, maybe do a 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:35.760 little bit of negotiation, and then the person whoever you're 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:39.600 representing goes out into the world and completes the job. 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:44.280 You are a good assistant at best, you're a good administrator. 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.000 That means that you are able to check. 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:50.439 An email, get a phone call, and do something with 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:54.400 someone who already thought about you, and they already came 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:57.919 to you asking for you to participate in whatever. This 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:02.840 is a good manager, publicist, stylists, whomever it is, is 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:06.199 able to go out and get you opportunities that you 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:09.720 did not even think of. Their job is to go 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:14.240 find you opportunities efficiently, not to come to you with, oh, 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:17.960 we got a call from Beet or from Revote or 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.919 whomever and they want you to do That's cool. That 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:23.960 is a particular that's a percentage of the job. 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:26.040 But that's, like you said, as an assistant, because the 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:28.760 only thing you're doing is actually assist in me. When 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:31.520 you say you're a manager or publicist, then that means 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:35.240 that you are able to provide something that I'm not able. 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:35.879 To provide for myself. 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:39.840 Right, So if you're only capitalizing off what I've already provided, 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.320 then you're just assisting me with the work I've already done. 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:48.840 Exactly, you're assisting the person you're representing with helping them 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:52.439 to execute whatever or whatever was already in your inbox. 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:54.120 So it could have been in your inbox, it could 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:55.480 have been in JoJo's. 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:57.200 It could have been in the. 0:18:57.119 --> 0:19:01.720 Person's inbox directly, it could have been wherever. If you 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:06.440 are not able to pitch and close deals to get 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:11.560 new opportunities, that's fresh ideas. Or if you hear the 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:14.880 person that you're working with saying I want I want 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:18.600 to do lipstick. Okay, this is your idea. You want 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:21.360 to do lipstick. So now it's my job to go 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:24.199 find you a partner, to go figure out what's the 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:28.159 pieces of that and make you the best lipstick seller 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:32.160 that's ever sold lipstick. But it is not a being 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:35.959 a in my job. It is not excuse me, in 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:41.120 my opinion, right, it is not for you to wait 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:44.240 until the lipstick people call, or until I go out 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.000 and find somebody and then I come back to you 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:50.440 and say, oh, you know, call Lisa and we gonna 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:53.720 work on lipstick together. That means you're a great administrator 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:54.679 and you should say that. 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:57.040 And by the way, there is nothing. 0:19:56.760 --> 0:20:00.720 Wrong with that because I know assistant who work for 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:04.480 important people that are making two hundred and fifty thousand 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.080 dollars a year and even more than that if they 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:10.159 get involved in you know, cutting a few deals. 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:10.520 Or what have you. 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:12.920 But people it's important. 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:14.399 It's at you. 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:18.760 Can't even move unless you have people who are really 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:21.440 really good at executing details. 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:22.640 That's what you do. 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:27.119 But you are not the manager, the publicist, the great 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:30.119 stylists and all of that. If all you do is 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:34.000 just put people in what they already can do for themselves, 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:37.680 it doesn't it doesn't work. And so for two thousand 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:42.280 and twenty five, I am also looking at that. Anybody 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:44.800 who comes to me now and says I want to 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:48.080 work with you on whatever, whether it be the book, 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:51.280 whether it be something for until freedom, the question needs 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:55.119 to be what can you offer that I cannot gain 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:58.240 for myself? So if I am the one who has 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:01.680 the relationship already, and then that does not count as 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:05.080 something that you brought to me unless you said, hey, 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:08.760 I think you should ask your friend yo, unless. 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:10.560 You're able to take the relationship that I already have 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:11.679 in maximum, That's. 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:14.320 What I'm saying, already been doing exactly. 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:15.320 Like if they come to me and they say yo, 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:17.680 when they only want to give me twenty and you're like, okay, 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:20.040 what and you come back with a hundred thousand? 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:21.480 Now you now you asked it? 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:24.520 Because I don't even know my work and you're able 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:26.520 to help me, you know, bring my work. But if 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:28.560 you if you just negotiating the deal that I already 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:31.000 told you is on the deal, and you just pinning 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:32.840 it down and you you know you able to bring 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:34.960 it for you did a good job, because that's a 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:38.159 required job. But it's not management, it's not publicists, and 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:40.080 it's not those things that's needed. 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:42.119 So we still need a managing the publishers. 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:45.040 You did, well, yeah, they're not exactly that. 0:21:45.200 --> 0:21:45.359 You know. 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:48.320 I would say, like with my management team, one of 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:53.000 the best things that I love to celebrate about them 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:55.840 is somebody will come with X amount of money and 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:58.840 they will find a way to get it increased. They 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:04.080 that's one thing you can toy a bond. The Toya 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:09.160 Bond will fight you down for every dime that I'm 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:11.720 supposed to have. So when you call you tell you 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:14.480 got twenty five hundred dollars. She's one of those people 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:17.280 that's like, we can't. I mean, it's not even a conversation. 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:21.760 It's gotta be x y Z. And one thing Toya 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:24.240 will do is sit with the person and be like, 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:26.439 let me help you find where you're gonna get the 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:29.680 rest of this money. Because she can't come for twenty 0:22:29.680 --> 0:22:32.000 five hundred dollars. That's not gonna happen. But I like you, 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:33.760 and I want to make it happen. But we gotta 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:37.399 figure it out. But I'm saying that overall, this is 0:22:37.640 --> 0:22:40.280 a challenge that I think, uh. 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:41.400 Yeah, most people run into. 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:44.080 I think it's a challenge that many. 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:48.640 I want to call I don't want to say celebrities, 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:54.719 maybe influencers, maybe key individuals is a better word, a 0:22:54.720 --> 0:22:58.520 better term. It's a challenge that many of us face 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:01.840 but don't really like to talk about because no one 0:23:01.920 --> 0:23:05.280 wants to upset either the people around them, and or 0:23:05.760 --> 0:23:10.359 they just glad to have the good administrator, the good assistant, 0:23:10.400 --> 0:23:12.560 because if they didn't have that, they would have nothing. 0:23:13.000 --> 0:23:15.440 So they just accepted a lot of people don't even 0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:19.040 know what it's supposed to look like to have a 0:23:19.280 --> 0:23:25.480 real professional team, and a professional person who is working 0:23:25.520 --> 0:23:29.560 on representing you is supposed to pitch you to places 0:23:29.880 --> 0:23:33.360 outside of your comfort zone. And so I just you know, 0:23:33.440 --> 0:23:35.840 that's my twenty twenty five. If you come to me 0:23:35.960 --> 0:23:38.040 and you want a partner, you want to work with me, 0:23:38.560 --> 0:23:42.720 don't come to me asking for me to open my books. 0:23:43.080 --> 0:23:46.800 And my relationships, and then that's how we're gonna get 0:23:46.840 --> 0:23:49.359 things done. You gotta come to me and tell me 0:23:49.520 --> 0:23:52.640 that you have something that you can offer me so 0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:56.480 that I can see where we're building together, not where 0:23:56.520 --> 0:23:59.160 it's all being done on my back. Because the other thing, 0:24:00.040 --> 0:24:02.359 it's the last thing I'll say on this, is that 0:24:02.440 --> 0:24:06.120 a lot of people will get your contacts and your 0:24:06.160 --> 0:24:08.439 relationships and the next thing you know, they'll be using 0:24:08.440 --> 0:24:11.240 it to help build somebody else or to build their 0:24:11.280 --> 0:24:14.679 own thing. So you think that they're working on working 0:24:14.720 --> 0:24:17.840 with whatever company or whatever person you introduce them to, 0:24:17.960 --> 0:24:19.640 and the next thing you know, you find out they're 0:24:19.640 --> 0:24:25.480 over there, you know, making making lease a Leasa's joint pop. 0:24:26.160 --> 0:24:28.320 I mean, that's that's the industry we're in. 0:24:28.800 --> 0:24:31.760 And you know, I've learned that and I've done a 0:24:31.800 --> 0:24:34.600 lot on my own based on those those situations. 0:24:34.640 --> 0:24:35.199 You know, that's me. 0:24:35.520 --> 0:24:36.160 I go to the. 0:24:36.119 --> 0:24:39.200 Table and I figure out my own, build my own 0:24:39.359 --> 0:24:41.399 from the ground up. And then when you find it's 0:24:41.440 --> 0:24:43.560 good to be able to find comfortable people that you 0:24:43.600 --> 0:24:46.960 feel comfortable, you know, filling in certain gaps. But you 0:24:46.960 --> 0:24:50.480 know that that's a very that's a very strong thing 0:24:50.600 --> 0:24:55.879 to have people that can that can get resources and 0:24:55.920 --> 0:24:58.439 get opportunities for you that you you're not in the 0:24:58.520 --> 0:25:01.360 room for that you don't even know exist if they 0:25:01.400 --> 0:25:04.000 see something. And that's also about belief, right, A lot 0:25:04.000 --> 0:25:07.320 of times you have people that they don't they don't 0:25:07.359 --> 0:25:09.880 believe that you should be in those like you might 0:25:09.920 --> 0:25:11.720 think you want thing, and they don't pitch it to 0:25:11.760 --> 0:25:13.080 you because they don't. They don't even know how to 0:25:13.119 --> 0:25:16.000 sell that, right, They don't even know how to sell you. 0:25:16.040 --> 0:25:18.840 So it's not a time, it's not a thing a 0:25:18.920 --> 0:25:19.800 negative thing on them. 0:25:19.800 --> 0:25:21.720 It's just that sometimes people just don't know. 0:25:21.840 --> 0:25:24.200 Right, But they want big checks, they want to check, 0:25:24.280 --> 0:25:30.000 they want big checks, and every and everybody wants a check, 0:25:30.119 --> 0:25:31.960 you know. And I think one of the reasons why 0:25:31.960 --> 0:25:36.119 I'm able to speak on this so confidently is because 0:25:36.359 --> 0:25:39.520 I've done all the different jobs. I've done all the 0:25:39.560 --> 0:25:44.080 different jobs, and I pride myself on attempting to get 0:25:44.119 --> 0:25:46.920 to the point of excellence. Excellence is a high bar, 0:25:47.280 --> 0:25:49.840 but I try really, really hard when I say I'm 0:25:49.880 --> 0:25:52.399 gonna do something, to really do it and to be 0:25:52.680 --> 0:25:56.640 as good as possible at whatever I'm working on. And 0:25:56.840 --> 0:25:59.879 I see that so many people are okay with media, 0:26:00.480 --> 0:26:03.480 they're so okay with just getting by, and for me, 0:26:03.720 --> 0:26:04.160 that's just. 0:26:04.119 --> 0:26:04.639 A turn off. 0:26:04.880 --> 0:26:08.560 So I'm all about I'm all for collaboration. I'm all 0:26:08.640 --> 0:26:12.000 for working with people. I want folks to you know, 0:26:12.119 --> 0:26:15.640 see me and want to figure out how they can 0:26:15.760 --> 0:26:19.760 help me to make what I've already built bigger and stronger. 0:26:20.119 --> 0:26:22.600 But certainly we're not gonna be able to do that. 0:26:22.720 --> 0:26:25.840 If the plan is that I'm supposed to tell you 0:26:26.000 --> 0:26:28.560 who are my people that you can call to get 0:26:28.600 --> 0:26:34.280 done already? What I can do for myself, well that's 0:26:34.320 --> 0:26:36.960 another whole thing. Now, if that's what you want to do, 0:26:37.160 --> 0:26:40.080 then you could come. I respect people who say from 0:26:40.160 --> 0:26:44.879 the gidea, I'm good at executing details, I know how 0:26:44.920 --> 0:26:50.600 to you know how to negotiate. I'm good at, you know, 0:26:50.840 --> 0:26:53.720 taking small plans and making them big. But the one 0:26:53.720 --> 0:26:56.040 thing I can say is I don't know the people. 0:26:56.320 --> 0:26:59.360 I don't know who to call. So if you have 0:26:59.520 --> 0:27:00.280 some folks. 0:27:00.480 --> 0:27:01.080 Let me know. 0:27:01.320 --> 0:27:04.520 But then then were talking about a different pay grade. 0:27:04.640 --> 0:27:07.440 I'm talking about people who call you telling you day 0:27:07.480 --> 0:27:08.080 to one. 0:27:08.000 --> 0:27:10.760 People you called and tell them that I'm the one, 0:27:10.800 --> 0:27:11.720 and they believe you. 0:27:11.680 --> 0:27:14.080 So much that we got it like that. That's what 0:27:14.119 --> 0:27:14.480 I want. 0:27:14.560 --> 0:27:16.400 I want the people that sell me when I ain't there. 0:27:16.680 --> 0:27:19.200 I want people that walk into movie, to walk into 0:27:19.240 --> 0:27:21.800 the on a set with Denzel and be like, my 0:27:21.920 --> 0:27:24.760 song be dope for this movie? Who else listening to me? 0:27:24.800 --> 0:27:27.800 You gotta meet him? And next you know, I got 0:27:27.840 --> 0:27:30.080 a conversation with Denzel and just off the conversation and 0:27:30.080 --> 0:27:33.280 the belief that that person han't you. I've seen situations 0:27:33.320 --> 0:27:35.280 happen like that, you know what I'm saying. People just 0:27:35.320 --> 0:27:38.080 believe in you that and they talk you into a 0:27:38.119 --> 0:27:41.080 great your greatness, you know, and they push you to 0:27:41.520 --> 0:27:43.560 beyond what you actually seek and be done, and they 0:27:43.600 --> 0:27:46.080 walk into rooms and they sell you in Avana that 0:27:46.119 --> 0:27:48.480 you feel like, well, I got to make them proud. 0:27:48.680 --> 0:27:51.040 And I think we've done that for one together. We 0:27:51.200 --> 0:27:53.800 have done that for one another. Because there's certain people. 0:27:54.200 --> 0:27:56.439 I didn't have a relationship with Charyl Mane until I 0:27:56.480 --> 0:27:58.560 met you, and then you were like, no, y'all have 0:27:58.600 --> 0:28:01.359 to work together and you need to go, you know, 0:28:01.440 --> 0:28:04.879 meet with him, and then vice versa. There were relationships 0:28:04.920 --> 0:28:07.280 that you didn't have. You had a powerful story, a 0:28:07.320 --> 0:28:11.200 powerful testimony, a lot of passion, but not the relationships 0:28:11.240 --> 0:28:13.119 with some of the people that I've been able to 0:28:13.200 --> 0:28:15.760 introduce you to. And it is believed because I can 0:28:15.840 --> 0:28:19.119 remember when we first started working together. There were people 0:28:19.359 --> 0:28:21.840 telling me like, what are you doing? Focus on yourself? 0:28:22.119 --> 0:28:25.480 Why? And I but I knew. I saw what I saw, 0:28:25.560 --> 0:28:26.639 and I knew what I knew. 0:28:26.680 --> 0:28:30.080 And now you busy and I'm like, hey, can you 0:28:30.080 --> 0:28:32.399 you know I'm still here. 0:28:32.400 --> 0:28:35.560 We all work, we all work, teamwork, make the dream work. 0:28:36.000 --> 0:28:39.239 Anyway, it's all good. 0:28:39.520 --> 0:28:42.160 So for the tea of mine today, you wanted to 0:28:42.200 --> 0:28:43.440 discuss Waka. 0:28:43.240 --> 0:28:48.360 Flocka me laugh. 0:28:48.840 --> 0:28:52.080 I can say a lot about mister Flokka, but I 0:28:52.160 --> 0:28:56.440 will stick with the most recent thing that the brother did. 0:28:57.000 --> 0:29:00.719 So I was on the internet last week and I 0:29:00.760 --> 0:29:04.680 saw a video or a picture like on Shade Room 0:29:04.760 --> 0:29:07.920 or one of them of him looking like he was 0:29:08.000 --> 0:29:10.719 beat up, like scars all over his face. And I 0:29:10.760 --> 0:29:16.520 think it was a caption that said, I can't believe 0:29:16.720 --> 0:29:21.120 nobody helped me fight off ten people, right, And so 0:29:21.200 --> 0:29:25.080 then a couple like a day or two later, somebody 0:29:25.120 --> 0:29:29.320 called me up and said, read read this and tell me. 0:29:29.920 --> 0:29:30.960 What's wrong with it. 0:29:31.520 --> 0:29:35.240 So I go check it out, and it was him 0:29:35.280 --> 0:29:37.160 saying Waka flaka saying. 0:29:37.880 --> 0:29:38.520 Look at y'all. 0:29:38.520 --> 0:29:43.040 People just believe anything without doing any research. And I 0:29:43.120 --> 0:29:47.000 just sat there and said to myself, no, sir, that's 0:29:47.080 --> 0:29:53.200 not how it works. Like it's the level of people 0:29:53.400 --> 0:29:57.280 trying to troll and not even knowing how to do it. 0:29:57.840 --> 0:29:59.680 Yeah, I just don't want to do it. 0:30:00.240 --> 0:30:06.160 Well, because that's not how misinformation and not doing research works. 0:30:07.240 --> 0:30:10.320 The best research that you can do for anything is 0:30:10.360 --> 0:30:11.520 to go to the source. 0:30:11.720 --> 0:30:12.200 Exactly. 0:30:12.800 --> 0:30:15.600 That is the research is to go to the source. 0:30:16.440 --> 0:30:20.000 So if the source tells you that something happened to them, 0:30:20.640 --> 0:30:24.160 then you are more than likely going to believe or 0:30:24.200 --> 0:30:27.560 at least listen to what they say. If I come 0:30:27.600 --> 0:30:30.920 on this show right now and say, last week I 0:30:31.000 --> 0:30:35.600 was knock on wood god forbid, robbed on one hundred 0:30:35.640 --> 0:30:38.520 and sixty first Street in the Grand Concourse, or forty 0:30:38.560 --> 0:30:40.720 second Street in Seventh Avenue, because we ain't gonna be 0:30:40.720 --> 0:30:43.800 taking all the crime to the bronx me doing all that, 0:30:44.000 --> 0:30:45.120 So forty. 0:30:44.880 --> 0:30:47.560 Second Street and seventh they rob down nanty. 0:30:48.240 --> 0:30:50.760 So if I say that, and you hear me say 0:30:50.800 --> 0:30:54.560 it out my mouth and I show you my purse 0:30:54.640 --> 0:30:58.480 that got ripped open, you are more than likely going 0:30:58.520 --> 0:31:01.800 to believe that, and it will probably become viral on 0:31:01.880 --> 0:31:05.680 socials with people being like, wow, Tamika Mallory was robbed 0:31:05.960 --> 0:31:09.000 in Manhattan on X Day. She says they grabs her 0:31:09.040 --> 0:31:13.320 purse and this you know, blah blah blah. Misinformation is 0:31:13.400 --> 0:31:18.040 if somebody else says that I was robbed and you 0:31:18.200 --> 0:31:20.880 don't know whether or not you can believe what that 0:31:21.000 --> 0:31:23.760 person said, it is not when it's coming from the 0:31:23.880 --> 0:31:24.680 sources mouth. 0:31:24.960 --> 0:31:27.760 The source is just a liar. It's not misinfamiation. 0:31:27.840 --> 0:31:31.720 Well, so then that's the question. Is Waka Flaka saying 0:31:32.080 --> 0:31:34.640 that we can't trust what comes out of his mouth? 0:31:36.000 --> 0:31:36.920 Is that what you're saying? 0:31:37.160 --> 0:31:39.280 What are you trying to say that we shouldn't trust 0:31:39.680 --> 0:31:41.880 you to tell us that you would beat up by 0:31:41.960 --> 0:31:45.280 ten people, or we should look for somebody else to confirm? 0:31:45.600 --> 0:31:48.400 And who should we ask? Should we ask the abusers 0:31:49.080 --> 0:31:50.960 one of the people that you if. 0:31:50.840 --> 0:31:52.960 Nobody was there or if the people who got in 0:31:53.000 --> 0:31:55.480 fight was the only people there, then it didn't happen. 0:31:56.600 --> 0:31:59.640 This is and that's my thing, right people always, because 0:31:59.640 --> 0:32:01.760 that's a that's a criticism, like I. 0:32:01.680 --> 0:32:04.840 Remember, you know the young lady that was. 0:32:06.120 --> 0:32:08.840 Allegedly hit with a brick, and I said, yo, if 0:32:08.880 --> 0:32:10.480 any man that would hit a woman with a brick 0:32:10.600 --> 0:32:12.320 is a coward, And I still feel that way. 0:32:12.440 --> 0:32:13.880 And people said, well, she never was a hit with 0:32:13.920 --> 0:32:15.960 a brick. Whatever, whether she was hit with. 0:32:15.920 --> 0:32:18.800 A brick or not, it does not take away the 0:32:18.880 --> 0:32:21.560 fact that I said that if a man hits a 0:32:21.600 --> 0:32:22.680 woman with a brick. 0:32:22.600 --> 0:32:23.280 He's a coward. 0:32:23.720 --> 0:32:25.560 If she and if she was hit with a brick, 0:32:25.840 --> 0:32:29.920 and I am inclined to say, why would a woman 0:32:29.960 --> 0:32:31.720 lie about that? And if she did lie, and y'all 0:32:31.720 --> 0:32:34.280 prove she lied, that's not on me. Im My due 0:32:34.320 --> 0:32:37.320 diligence is to say, hey, this is wrong. I didn't 0:32:37.360 --> 0:32:39.760 call out any individual nobody. I didn't get a person 0:32:39.800 --> 0:32:42.000 locked up. I didn't say this person did this. I 0:32:42.000 --> 0:32:45.840 didn't know who did anything. I said, if these things happened, 0:32:45.920 --> 0:32:48.720 that it was wrong. So when people say it's misinformation 0:32:48.800 --> 0:32:51.040 and you grab it. If we see Walker Flock and 0:32:51.120 --> 0:32:53.680 somebody that we respect, Waker Flock and somebody I'm cool with, 0:32:53.760 --> 0:32:56.320 I'm knowing Waker Flocker for years, you know, shout out 0:32:56.320 --> 0:32:58.200 to Beny like I'm knowing Waker for years. 0:32:58.560 --> 0:33:01.360 So if Waker said he got jumped. Why would I 0:33:01.520 --> 0:33:03.120 not believe that Waka God. 0:33:03.080 --> 0:33:06.560 Jumped that he said it out of his mouth. 0:33:06.880 --> 0:33:08.960 How it works, I don't know. 0:33:09.120 --> 0:33:13.000 I don't mia, and I just don't understand a lot 0:33:13.000 --> 0:33:14.960 of things that's been going on lately on the Internet. 0:33:15.000 --> 0:33:17.120 I know a lot of people and they do things 0:33:17.160 --> 0:33:20.480 on the Internet now lately that confused me. You know, 0:33:20.560 --> 0:33:24.520 I'm telling you, the Internet has has me confused about 0:33:24.520 --> 0:33:25.680 a lot of people. 0:33:25.680 --> 0:33:28.280 That I've known prior to the Internet. A lot of 0:33:28.320 --> 0:33:29.360 things that are being said. 0:33:29.400 --> 0:33:32.880 So it's that, and that for me is kind of 0:33:32.920 --> 0:33:38.720 like what confuses me because I feel like people are 0:33:38.840 --> 0:33:41.480 so you know what, Here's what I think. If my 0:33:41.640 --> 0:33:44.800 mother was sitting here right now and she heard this 0:33:44.840 --> 0:33:46.040 whole story, she would say. 0:33:46.000 --> 0:33:47.160 Y'all ain't busy enough. 0:33:47.560 --> 0:33:51.600 Y'all need to find some actional things to do, because 0:33:51.920 --> 0:33:58.480 if you're not at multi millionaire status, multi multi millionaire 0:33:58.480 --> 0:33:59.920 status where you can take care. 0:33:59.760 --> 0:34:02.000 Of your community and other communities and. 0:34:02.040 --> 0:34:07.960 Build infrastructure and be at the table with people who 0:34:08.000 --> 0:34:11.040 are doing things like that, Like I want to be able. 0:34:11.160 --> 0:34:14.319 I want Robert Smith and other people like him to 0:34:14.400 --> 0:34:17.560 be calling me to be a part of investments and 0:34:17.640 --> 0:34:20.960 things that they have going on, and until that happens 0:34:21.000 --> 0:34:24.560 in my life, I really don't have time to make 0:34:24.680 --> 0:34:28.480 videos of myself doing something and then telling people, Oh, 0:34:28.560 --> 0:34:29.279 you didn't. 0:34:29.160 --> 0:34:31.960 Check and you don't know. It's like, are you bored? 0:34:32.400 --> 0:34:35.880 Because I really like you know I personally, I like 0:34:36.040 --> 0:34:40.400 Waka's mother. I think that that you know, she's dope. 0:34:40.600 --> 0:34:43.040 You know, we've had some real strong conversations. I don't 0:34:43.080 --> 0:34:46.719 agree with their political stances, nonetheless I like them. I 0:34:46.840 --> 0:34:50.279 know that this is a talented young man who's super cool. 0:34:50.360 --> 0:34:53.399 Every time I've met him, been in his presence, he's cool. 0:34:53.840 --> 0:34:57.279 But I feel like the Internet just be having us 0:34:57.320 --> 0:35:00.960 confused or something. Something is wrong because this did not 0:35:01.080 --> 0:35:03.560 make any sense to me. And so my team I 0:35:03.680 --> 0:35:06.759 today is Waka you doing too much like you? 0:35:06.800 --> 0:35:07.680 No we believe you? 0:35:07.840 --> 0:35:10.480 Or are you telling us that we can't believe you 0:35:10.560 --> 0:35:11.560 when you say something? 0:35:11.920 --> 0:35:15.120 Well that's a very fair question. Yeah, very fair question, 0:35:15.719 --> 0:35:18.880 and that brings us to our guess. So today we 0:35:18.920 --> 0:35:22.520 are joined by a friend of mine. This is my 0:35:22.640 --> 0:35:26.440 friend's friend. I'm telling he's you gonna wanna be his 0:35:26.480 --> 0:35:31.520 friend because Santino Drew, who is the founder of Wise 0:35:31.520 --> 0:35:37.880 Money Academy, you know, has been teaching me about stocks 0:35:38.080 --> 0:35:42.799 and how to do options, and like he has a strategy. 0:35:43.320 --> 0:35:44.719 Like a lot of people. You go on line and 0:35:44.760 --> 0:35:45.880 I hear a lot of people, and there's a lot 0:35:45.880 --> 0:35:47.320 of people that that are dope. 0:35:47.680 --> 0:35:48.160 You know what I'm saying. 0:35:48.160 --> 0:35:52.160 Shout out to my brothers Fromalisia, Rashard and Troy, they 0:35:52.200 --> 0:35:55.279 do they things. Shout out to Wall Street Trapper, like 0:35:55.520 --> 0:35:58.320 these are people that I respect. But Santino is also 0:35:58.400 --> 0:36:01.400 one of those brothers that has been in the trenches 0:36:02.120 --> 0:36:04.799 and he brings it to you from that part, that 0:36:04.960 --> 0:36:09.320 perspective that makes you understand stocks and stocks and trading. 0:36:09.719 --> 0:36:11.560 And I made some money with him, you know what 0:36:11.600 --> 0:36:13.759 I'm saying. So that's that's the main thing. When you 0:36:13.840 --> 0:36:15.520 make some money when somebody talk about it, a lot 0:36:15.520 --> 0:36:17.840 of people you go online and I'll be listening to 0:36:17.840 --> 0:36:22.200 it now after you know, actually working with Santino. When 0:36:22.239 --> 0:36:24.000 you go online and you hear a lot of these 0:36:24.400 --> 0:36:28.120 you know, internet traders, you realize that they really not 0:36:28.160 --> 0:36:30.600 telling you nothing. They just selling you a dream more 0:36:30.600 --> 0:36:32.960 in it because they never really give you anything. Like 0:36:33.000 --> 0:36:34.560 he'll send me stuff and be like, tell me what 0:36:34.640 --> 0:36:36.480 this guy is saying and I'm listening, I'd be like, 0:36:37.280 --> 0:36:39.919 it ain't nothing that he's given you, no meat or nothing. 0:36:39.920 --> 0:36:41.600 He just telling you, yo, you can make this and 0:36:41.640 --> 0:36:43.160 you can do this and I did this, but he 0:36:43.160 --> 0:36:45.439 ain't giving you no tools to do it. He ain't 0:36:45.440 --> 0:36:48.480 giving you no strategy, nothing that you can understand, you know, 0:36:48.560 --> 0:36:50.480 and saying, is one of those people that has made 0:36:50.520 --> 0:36:52.279 me understand in a short period of time. 0:36:52.719 --> 0:36:57.120 And it was it's like options and trading for dummies. 0:36:58.360 --> 0:36:59.040 It really is. 0:36:59.080 --> 0:37:01.640 It's like it's like and he breaks it down being 0:37:01.719 --> 0:37:03.919 from you know, I don't want to give his whole story. 0:37:03.920 --> 0:37:05.759 I want him to give you his own story. But 0:37:06.160 --> 0:37:07.360 just where we come from. 0:37:07.160 --> 0:37:09.680 There's a way that you have to explain and things 0:37:09.719 --> 0:37:11.880 that you understand that he knows how to do it. 0:37:11.920 --> 0:37:14.280 So shout out to my brother saying, you know, thanks. 0:37:14.120 --> 0:37:16.000 For coming to shout out to y'all man for having 0:37:16.040 --> 0:37:19.920 me up here. This is this is long awaited. Definitely 0:37:20.000 --> 0:37:22.360 much respect to everything y'all. Do you know Mice we 0:37:22.480 --> 0:37:24.920 talk all the time, and it was like an honor 0:37:25.120 --> 0:37:26.120 seeing y'all that day. 0:37:26.360 --> 0:37:26.960 Yeah, we met. 0:37:27.040 --> 0:37:29.680 We met at investvest at the truck. We was at 0:37:29.680 --> 0:37:32.480 the food truck in the heat and we're standing there 0:37:32.560 --> 0:37:36.759 like yo, it's every truck is full and they moving 0:37:36.840 --> 0:37:39.640 mass slow. And then we just started having a conversation. 0:37:40.239 --> 0:37:41.759 And the next thing, you know, we sitting there for 0:37:41.800 --> 0:37:44.160 like an hour talking and then we just exchanged information. 0:37:44.280 --> 0:37:47.920 And so that's what you two of you first met there, Yeah, 0:37:48.560 --> 0:37:49.680 the first and. 0:37:49.640 --> 0:37:50.120 You was there. 0:37:50.160 --> 0:37:52.520 You were you were too hot, you ain't feeling about 0:37:52.520 --> 0:37:52.799 the heat. 0:37:52.840 --> 0:37:53.920 You wasn't trying to hear much. 0:37:53.920 --> 0:37:58.120 And you and you remember me, you remember me, you 0:37:58.120 --> 0:37:59.960 know the next time you see me, you said peace? 0:38:00.080 --> 0:38:04.520 Why all right? Yeah, because you. 0:38:04.560 --> 0:38:06.760 Know, damn, I'm really bad. 0:38:07.400 --> 0:38:09.440 You see a lot of people that invest FST. But 0:38:09.480 --> 0:38:12.640 when you see real soldiers of the fight, it's different, 0:38:13.280 --> 0:38:16.320 if you mean, you know, because I'm bred different. I 0:38:16.440 --> 0:38:18.960 come up different. So to see what you guys do, 0:38:19.239 --> 0:38:22.160 to see to y'all have my brother shout out, shout 0:38:22.160 --> 0:38:25.319 out the touch, shout out the eighth of grade. Y'all 0:38:25.360 --> 0:38:28.440 just had them over here. And when I see people 0:38:28.520 --> 0:38:31.239 like y'all, that means so much more than me than 0:38:31.280 --> 0:38:34.320 seeing my favorite celebrity. You see what I'm saying, because 0:38:34.360 --> 0:38:36.600 it's like respect to them in their art or whatever 0:38:36.640 --> 0:38:39.000 they did to make them. My favorite celebrity. But this 0:38:39.160 --> 0:38:42.839 is real, this is needed. This is just that groundwork. Man, 0:38:42.840 --> 0:38:45.400 It's serious. So shout out to y'all. 0:38:45.440 --> 0:38:48.560 Man, So give us, give us your background. Where are 0:38:48.560 --> 0:38:49.160 you from? 0:38:49.719 --> 0:38:51.600 Give us a little bit of background of you so 0:38:51.680 --> 0:38:54.319 people can understand your story and why this is important. 0:38:54.680 --> 0:38:59.120 Got you so born in a bad place, raised in 0:38:59.160 --> 0:39:04.479 another bad place. Born in Chicago, came to Jersey City, 0:39:04.520 --> 0:39:09.080 New Jersey, raised the New Bruns with New Jersey a 0:39:09.200 --> 0:39:12.160 few stops in between. Their family was a little nomadic, 0:39:12.360 --> 0:39:14.000 you know. It's normally like that when you're in a 0:39:14.040 --> 0:39:17.440 single parent household, especially for my mom because she she 0:39:17.480 --> 0:39:20.120 lost her parents at young so it was a lot 0:39:20.120 --> 0:39:23.280 of moving around. So I had my share different ghettos. 0:39:23.440 --> 0:39:25.960 Never you know, lived in New York or anything like that, 0:39:26.080 --> 0:39:30.120 but right here, you know. So yeah, man, just always 0:39:30.120 --> 0:39:32.920 a trouble child, getting kicked out of school, things like that, 0:39:33.040 --> 0:39:36.799 running the streets. You know, was rapping at a time, 0:39:37.160 --> 0:39:41.879 you know, Yeah, yeah, definitely, definitely. I used to go. 0:39:42.040 --> 0:39:44.560 I used to go, don't worry, y'all, I'm not gonna 0:39:44.560 --> 0:39:47.160 clog up the lane. Don't worry about it. I'm done. 0:39:47.200 --> 0:39:50.480 I'm not going lebron this thing. But anyway, now I 0:39:50.560 --> 0:39:52.719 used to wrap and you know, running around in the 0:39:52.719 --> 0:39:56.440 streets at the same time, you know, a problematic child 0:39:57.600 --> 0:40:00.000 dropped out of school in ninth grade. And I'm giving 0:40:00.080 --> 0:40:03.080 in this context just so people could know when we 0:40:03.120 --> 0:40:07.520 get into the investment talk who I am. So there's 0:40:07.600 --> 0:40:11.320 no misconception about what you have to look like or 0:40:11.360 --> 0:40:13.239 who you have to be to be involved in this. 0:40:13.920 --> 0:40:19.960 In fact, this is the least required game that you 0:40:20.000 --> 0:40:21.960 can get in. You know, they don't care about your 0:40:21.960 --> 0:40:24.680 credit score. They don't care about your background. As long 0:40:24.719 --> 0:40:27.760 as you didn't steal any money, grand larceny, any fraud, 0:40:27.840 --> 0:40:30.560 anything like that. You can open an account. They don't 0:40:30.600 --> 0:40:32.279 care if you're from the projects or if you're from 0:40:32.320 --> 0:40:35.680 the penthouse. They don't care. Open up your robbin hood, 0:40:35.719 --> 0:40:38.400 you know how it was it for you and you 0:40:38.520 --> 0:40:40.960 actually had that before we met. You said, said, I 0:40:40.960 --> 0:40:44.360 got a robbin hood already. So that's pretty much my background, 0:40:44.400 --> 0:40:48.359 you know, from ghetto to ghetto, street dealer. You know, 0:40:48.920 --> 0:40:52.480 had my share of bumps and bruises in the streets, 0:40:54.200 --> 0:41:00.600 violence inflicted on me, inflicting violence on people. Just recently 0:41:00.800 --> 0:41:04.919 came home five and a half years Well, no, man, 0:41:04.920 --> 0:41:08.120 I've lost the time. It's twenty twenty five now, so 0:41:08.160 --> 0:41:09.280 I've been home eight years. 0:41:09.280 --> 0:41:11.000 Now. How long did you serve? 0:41:11.320 --> 0:41:13.400 I did five years and nine months, but I actually 0:41:13.480 --> 0:41:17.239 had a twenty two year sentence. First half of that 0:41:18.000 --> 0:41:20.520 five years and nine months was spent fighting, you know, 0:41:20.640 --> 0:41:24.560 putting in the pills and learning federal law. And I 0:41:24.600 --> 0:41:27.200 was actually learning federal law in the stock market and 0:41:27.280 --> 0:41:28.720 economics at the same time. 0:41:29.640 --> 0:41:32.160 So you learned about the stock market in prison. 0:41:31.880 --> 0:41:34.000 In prison, in federal prison, to be exact. 0:41:35.239 --> 0:41:37.800 Did what made you want to I? 0:41:37.960 --> 0:41:40.200 I I actually seen a friend of mine who I 0:41:40.239 --> 0:41:42.319 was in state prison with. You know, this is my 0:41:42.400 --> 0:41:45.879 second stint. So first time, I did three years in 0:41:45.920 --> 0:41:48.839 state prison in New Jersey. I ran into a guy 0:41:49.800 --> 0:41:51.799 shout out to my man, A I ran into him. 0:41:52.160 --> 0:41:54.600 And Jersey's a small community in the FED. So when 0:41:54.640 --> 0:41:56.680 I seen him, it was like he told me he 0:41:56.719 --> 0:41:59.880 had already heard somebody from Jersey came to where I was, 0:42:00.239 --> 0:42:03.880 which was Farrington FCI in New Jersey and it's a 0:42:03.920 --> 0:42:07.200 medium correction facility. So when I seen him, he had 0:42:07.200 --> 0:42:10.080 this mesh bag with him, a great mesh bag, and 0:42:10.400 --> 0:42:12.880 that blew my mind, you know, because I'm down here, 0:42:12.880 --> 0:42:15.080 and this is my first time out on the compound. 0:42:15.120 --> 0:42:17.560 You know, you're able to walk around. And I see 0:42:17.600 --> 0:42:19.920 guys with these mesh bags like they're going to school, 0:42:19.920 --> 0:42:23.800 and I'm like, where am I? You know, And so 0:42:23.920 --> 0:42:26.160 I stopped him. I said, hey, what's up? And he 0:42:26.320 --> 0:42:27.960 was like, yo, they told me you was down here. 0:42:28.000 --> 0:42:29.480 So I was like, all right, where you going man? 0:42:29.520 --> 0:42:30.279 While you're in a rush? 0:42:30.320 --> 0:42:30.919 What's up? Man? 0:42:31.280 --> 0:42:32.480 He's like, oh, I got to make it to the 0:42:32.520 --> 0:42:35.640 stock class. I said, a stock class. And I already 0:42:35.680 --> 0:42:37.520 known him when we was down before, you know, I 0:42:37.600 --> 0:42:39.839 was I was younger than I was, about twenty five. 0:42:39.840 --> 0:42:42.040 But we was always on our elevation thing, you know, 0:42:42.160 --> 0:42:47.120 reading books and trying to you know, exchange information and 0:42:47.160 --> 0:42:49.200 things like that. On our fake quest to go home 0:42:49.239 --> 0:42:51.200 and change our life. It didn't happen. So I say, 0:42:51.239 --> 0:42:56.120 it's a fake quest, so you believe that part of 0:42:56.120 --> 0:42:59.319 me did, but the real monster was screaming for something else. 0:42:59.560 --> 0:43:02.319 It wasn't the time to stop. Yet. You get your time. 0:43:02.400 --> 0:43:05.719 You know your time, and hopefully people will know their time, 0:43:05.960 --> 0:43:10.319 you know, and have that opportunity to actually, you know, 0:43:10.640 --> 0:43:13.280 have a chance to redeem yourself and change it around. 0:43:13.640 --> 0:43:16.839 But so I see a and he like, yeah, it's 0:43:16.880 --> 0:43:18.879 this guy up there. They call him Wall Street shout 0:43:18.880 --> 0:43:21.320 out to Wall Street Trapper, but not Wall Street Trapper. 0:43:21.400 --> 0:43:24.000 An older guy from New Jersey, and he was a 0:43:24.080 --> 0:43:26.120 hustle in the streets. But he said he always played 0:43:26.120 --> 0:43:28.840 the stock market. He said, Yo, this guy is actually 0:43:28.880 --> 0:43:31.520 on your unit. Get in touch with him. And from 0:43:31.560 --> 0:43:33.879 there was on. I went to his class. I went 0:43:33.920 --> 0:43:36.360 to his class so many times that they told me 0:43:36.360 --> 0:43:38.200 I couldn't put my name on the list no more. 0:43:38.840 --> 0:43:41.200 So I needed to get enough from him. And just 0:43:41.239 --> 0:43:43.400 like you said, the way I deliver it is the 0:43:43.440 --> 0:43:46.640 way I got got it from him. He wasn't super articulate, 0:43:46.880 --> 0:43:50.080 he wasn't super you know, crazy with the words. He 0:43:50.160 --> 0:43:52.359 was a street guy and when he talked, he moved 0:43:52.400 --> 0:43:55.200 his hands like he was rapping. So everybody liked his 0:43:55.280 --> 0:43:58.239 class because you know, he put in such a simplest 0:43:58.239 --> 0:44:01.960 form He had this this formula, same thing. I told you, 0:44:01.960 --> 0:44:05.280 you know, who's running the market, how do you participate? 0:44:05.640 --> 0:44:08.480 And you know it was very easy to understand. So I, 0:44:08.800 --> 0:44:11.799 you know, from there I fell in love. But the 0:44:11.880 --> 0:44:15.960 real thing that made me know that I didn't if 0:44:16.000 --> 0:44:19.360 I hadn't already attempted to get back my time in 0:44:19.400 --> 0:44:22.320 the FEDS and went down that rabbit hole, right, which 0:44:22.360 --> 0:44:26.640 is a very complex rabbit hole, right, I wouldn't have 0:44:27.320 --> 0:44:31.640 probably approached the stock market stuff. I approached it unconsciously 0:44:31.800 --> 0:44:35.120 because it was something that I was always slightly intrigued 0:44:35.160 --> 0:44:37.359 by but never had the chance to really die take 0:44:37.400 --> 0:44:40.319 a deeper delv into it. So when he told me 0:44:40.360 --> 0:44:43.640 it was second nature, because now I had already learned 0:44:43.640 --> 0:44:46.360 that I could learn federal law with a ninth grade education. 0:44:47.280 --> 0:44:50.320 So by the time you mentioned something complex like options 0:44:50.320 --> 0:44:52.879 in economics, it's cool. I just came from over here. 0:44:52.920 --> 0:44:56.040 I'm not even sizing it up. I'm not even in 0:44:56.080 --> 0:44:58.719 my head like, oh, I can't learn that is what 0:44:58.760 --> 0:45:01.200 do you mean? That's not even a thought, you see 0:45:01.239 --> 0:45:03.120 what I'm saying. I'm in the process. I got these 0:45:03.160 --> 0:45:05.920 people backs against the wall. I can learn anything at 0:45:05.920 --> 0:45:10.280 this point. So that's that's what I believe really made 0:45:10.320 --> 0:45:13.919 me know that this was something I needed to do, 0:45:14.160 --> 0:45:17.160 because already in my mind, no matter how complex the 0:45:17.160 --> 0:45:19.719 federal system was, or no matter how many people had 0:45:19.800 --> 0:45:23.000 life or had money more money than me, that couldn't 0:45:23.000 --> 0:45:26.279 get home. I knew I was coming home. I knew that, 0:45:26.680 --> 0:45:29.759 so in my mind I had to play it all 0:45:29.800 --> 0:45:33.160 the way out right, this whole optimism picture right now, 0:45:33.360 --> 0:45:35.480 start preparing to come home. What you're gonna do when 0:45:35.520 --> 0:45:38.240 you get home. You still got that thirst, You still 0:45:38.360 --> 0:45:42.000 like certain things, what you're gonna do. So I gravitated 0:45:42.040 --> 0:45:45.000 towards those people. When I got there, an older guy 0:45:45.160 --> 0:45:48.160 never been to the fedes. An older guy said, younger, 0:45:48.200 --> 0:45:50.040 you looking around a lot. You've been You've been to 0:45:50.080 --> 0:45:53.680 the FES before. I said, nah. He said, I'm back 0:45:53.680 --> 0:45:56.040 on a probation violation. He said, but I'm gonna tell 0:45:56.040 --> 0:45:58.319 you like this, this could either be one of two 0:45:58.400 --> 0:46:02.040 things for you. It could be university or a playground. 0:46:02.840 --> 0:46:03.239 He said. 0:46:03.280 --> 0:46:05.920 If you're a wise man, it's gonna be a university. 0:46:06.640 --> 0:46:09.600 If you're a fool, it's gonna be a playground. And 0:46:09.640 --> 0:46:12.520 he told me that, and I never forgot that that 0:46:12.680 --> 0:46:16.080 was It was ironic because the young boys after me, 0:46:16.320 --> 0:46:19.920 Wall Street A and a couple other guys after I'm already, 0:46:20.160 --> 0:46:24.040 you know, well versed into the stock market thing. It's 0:46:24.120 --> 0:46:26.359 like five of us that walk around a compound all 0:46:26.400 --> 0:46:28.160 the time, studying and trading information. 0:46:28.280 --> 0:46:29.360 So people know us. 0:46:29.640 --> 0:46:31.879 So they call us the wise men. So that's where 0:46:31.880 --> 0:46:35.120 that whole thing came from, the Wise Money Academy. So 0:46:35.840 --> 0:46:39.319 and the guy in the holding tank, and you know, 0:46:39.360 --> 0:46:41.600 when you're coming from reception, you're in a holding tank. 0:46:41.960 --> 0:46:44.160 And that's what he told me, like he was warning 0:46:44.200 --> 0:46:47.040 me about the prison, things you could get into, you know, 0:46:47.120 --> 0:46:49.840 what not to get into. And he was right. You know, 0:46:49.920 --> 0:46:52.800 it's a playground. You know. You can do everything except 0:46:52.840 --> 0:46:57.160 have a girlfriend in there, you know, and you can 0:46:57.960 --> 0:47:00.680 make any kind of money you want, or you can 0:47:00.800 --> 0:47:03.920 learn anything you want. You got loan sharks, you got 0:47:04.600 --> 0:47:07.000 guys in there for all type of fraud, credit fraud, 0:47:07.200 --> 0:47:13.239 loan fraud, real estate fraud, you know, larceny, inside of trading. Right. 0:47:13.680 --> 0:47:16.839 So I had these people as my mentors, you know, 0:47:17.239 --> 0:47:19.440 So it wasn't just stocks and options. I learned. I 0:47:19.520 --> 0:47:23.600 learned everything I could about money. And I think that 0:47:23.800 --> 0:47:26.600 is the most important job I have to put my 0:47:26.760 --> 0:47:29.600 people on to the money. It ain't just about see 0:47:30.000 --> 0:47:32.719 I'm wowing them, you know, we're in the challenge right now, 0:47:32.840 --> 0:47:35.440 wowing them, letting them see that they can make eighteen 0:47:35.520 --> 0:47:38.200 hundred off three hundred dollars that they can make turn 0:47:38.320 --> 0:47:41.520 two hundred dollars into five thousand dollars in one day. 0:47:41.600 --> 0:47:43.960 I'm letting them see that, but I'm also keeping their 0:47:44.000 --> 0:47:47.239 emotions at bay to let them know it's a bigger picture. Right. 0:47:47.680 --> 0:47:51.920 I need you to understand that the wealthy has many 0:47:52.080 --> 0:47:55.120 simple systems like this that they use to get money. 0:47:56.000 --> 0:47:58.200 And it's not about who's keeping what from what. Because 0:47:58.200 --> 0:47:59.960 I'm gonna be honest with both of y'all on here. 0:48:00.600 --> 0:48:05.279 Most of my mentors were white, you understand, right, And 0:48:05.320 --> 0:48:07.520 the ones that I met, they actually told me go 0:48:07.640 --> 0:48:11.440 home and feed your people. You see what I'm saying, 0:48:11.520 --> 0:48:14.640 but you, but you it ain't. It's not a kawinkident 0:48:14.880 --> 0:48:17.319 where you're getting this information from though, right? 0:48:17.360 --> 0:48:17.719 You know. 0:48:19.360 --> 0:48:22.319 Well you said most You said that wealthy people have 0:48:22.480 --> 0:48:25.880 many systems where they make so many simple systems. 0:48:25.920 --> 0:48:26.839 Can you talk more about that? 0:48:27.120 --> 0:48:27.239 So? 0:48:27.600 --> 0:48:31.360 For instance, right, life insurance. We all think life insurance 0:48:31.440 --> 0:48:34.040 is so that when you die, your kids don't go 0:48:34.160 --> 0:48:37.080 broke trying to bury you. That's one thing, and that's 0:48:37.080 --> 0:48:41.399 the smallest thing. Life insurance is an institution. The people 0:48:41.440 --> 0:48:44.560 who own life insurance companies they are huge, trillion and 0:48:44.600 --> 0:48:48.200 billion dollar institutions. So you have to ask yourself if 0:48:48.239 --> 0:48:51.000 you got a whole life plan and they're, you know, 0:48:51.160 --> 0:48:53.840 pretty much giving you a certain amount of money on 0:48:54.040 --> 0:48:56.520 the money that you're putting up every month, how are 0:48:56.560 --> 0:48:58.880 they actually able to do this with so many people? 0:48:59.600 --> 0:49:03.600 For one, the insurance policies aren't getting called in that early, right. 0:49:04.120 --> 0:49:06.560 It's like having insurance on your car. You're paying for something. 0:49:07.560 --> 0:49:09.840 You're paying for something you don't need. You got insurance 0:49:09.920 --> 0:49:11.680 on your car, right, you don't need it until you 0:49:11.680 --> 0:49:14.080 get in the accidents. Why am I paying for it 0:49:14.120 --> 0:49:15.879 the other twelve months out of the year, the other 0:49:15.920 --> 0:49:18.480 eleven months out of the year. So when you think 0:49:18.520 --> 0:49:21.000 about life insurance, when you give them your money, they're 0:49:21.040 --> 0:49:24.880 investing it in the US stock market, and that's how 0:49:24.920 --> 0:49:27.600 they're able to give you those returns because it's a 0:49:27.640 --> 0:49:31.120 simple system. They know something that most of us don't, 0:49:31.480 --> 0:49:34.200 that the US stock market was designed to go up, 0:49:35.680 --> 0:49:38.520 and that is no it's no if as a butt's 0:49:38.520 --> 0:49:41.359 about it. They know that your four to one K, 0:49:41.480 --> 0:49:45.720 your four three B, your retirement, your pension is all 0:49:45.800 --> 0:49:49.120 tied to them in some form of fashion, and tied 0:49:49.160 --> 0:49:51.759 to the stock market. We're the only ones that don't 0:49:51.760 --> 0:49:54.399 know that. And when I say we, I say it's 0:49:54.400 --> 0:49:57.799 a lot of people. It's not just you know, minority. 0:49:57.280 --> 0:49:58.120 Or brown people. 0:49:58.440 --> 0:50:00.800 You see what I'm saying. It's a lot of whites. 0:50:00.840 --> 0:50:02.719 It's a lot of Asians that don't know this game. 0:50:02.800 --> 0:50:06.080 I've had all sorts of students. Man, you be surprised. 0:50:06.080 --> 0:50:09.279 But it's just that, you know, when we're when we're 0:50:09.320 --> 0:50:12.200 the minority here, it's gonna seem as if like the 0:50:12.280 --> 0:50:15.280 information just goes to one class, because it does, because 0:50:15.320 --> 0:50:18.320 it's more of them than us. So it's more people 0:50:18.360 --> 0:50:23.640 that understand money. And they didn't get blocked exactly. They 0:50:23.640 --> 0:50:25.879 weren't getting blocked. We were getting blocked at the point. 0:50:25.920 --> 0:50:28.719 We still get blocked a lot of different ways. You know, 0:50:29.040 --> 0:50:31.920 it's just certain things they they don't want to block. 0:50:31.960 --> 0:50:34.640 As time went on, my opinion is that you know, 0:50:34.680 --> 0:50:37.280 as time went on and they moved these old goats 0:50:37.320 --> 0:50:39.720 out the way, you know, some of these younger players 0:50:39.760 --> 0:50:41.919 came and they still got the same ways of the goat. 0:50:41.960 --> 0:50:44.560 But they know, you gotta be a little more flexible 0:50:44.560 --> 0:50:46.400 in order for this thing to continue. In order for 0:50:46.480 --> 0:50:49.239 us to continue this power structure, we gotta let them 0:50:49.239 --> 0:50:51.600 in and make them think they're doing something you know. 0:50:51.640 --> 0:50:51.879 Well. 0:50:53.320 --> 0:50:56.359 Exactly you can't say exactly. So you got the life 0:50:56.440 --> 0:50:59.640 insurance is one simple way. Everything that we do in 0:50:59.719 --> 0:51:04.600 terms a college, our tuitions. Colleges have endowments, right, those 0:51:04.719 --> 0:51:08.279 endowments are investments in the US stock market. But yet 0:51:08.280 --> 0:51:12.120 those same colleges aren't gonna teach you how to trade 0:51:12.200 --> 0:51:14.120 the US that they're not even gonna teach you how 0:51:14.120 --> 0:51:17.040 to invest in the US stock market. Don't get it wrong. 0:51:17.120 --> 0:51:21.600 Trading and investing is two different things, right, Because if 0:51:21.640 --> 0:51:24.840 I'm trading what my song's doing with me, we're getting 0:51:24.880 --> 0:51:28.239 short term money every day. That's risky. But when you 0:51:28.440 --> 0:51:33.040 talking about Apple, something that is well engraved in your 0:51:33.080 --> 0:51:36.880 life and your lifestyle. When you talk about Microsoft, something 0:51:36.880 --> 0:51:39.480 that we can't operate our phones or our computers with 0:51:39.760 --> 0:51:44.160 pepsi things of this nature, those are long term investments. 0:51:44.160 --> 0:51:46.759 When you put your money into that, you understand that 0:51:46.800 --> 0:51:49.919 you have your money in a long lasting brand. Now 0:51:49.960 --> 0:51:52.200 what you need to do from there is decide how 0:51:52.239 --> 0:51:54.439 long you want to have your money in there. What's 0:51:54.480 --> 0:51:57.160 your plan for having that money? Is it a generational thing? 0:51:57.200 --> 0:51:58.960 Are you gonna pass it down to your kids. What 0:51:59.000 --> 0:52:02.879 are you gonna do with it? Right? But like Soam 0:52:02.920 --> 0:52:05.319 brought up a good point. Were running the challenge now, 0:52:05.320 --> 0:52:07.839 And the main purpose for running it is that I 0:52:08.000 --> 0:52:13.440 understand that once Trump got into office, right, that the 0:52:13.560 --> 0:52:19.400 salesman and the market understands that now people's mentality is 0:52:19.440 --> 0:52:22.279 going to be bye bye, bye bye. I want to 0:52:22.320 --> 0:52:24.840 know about the stock market if you're not already in it. 0:52:25.120 --> 0:52:27.000 And that's what happens. So when you looked at your 0:52:27.040 --> 0:52:30.040 time feed right or your feed on IG, you see 0:52:30.160 --> 0:52:32.400 nothing but people saying I can sell you a course. 0:52:32.440 --> 0:52:34.480 I can sell you a course, I can sell your course. 0:52:34.719 --> 0:52:38.120 It's like it's clockwork. Even Tony Robbins in them right now, 0:52:38.239 --> 0:52:41.080 they're running their stuff. I can come to my conference, 0:52:41.120 --> 0:52:44.080 come to my conference. Everybody who do conferences, it's like 0:52:44.200 --> 0:52:48.000 it's clockwork. So my duty because I know my people 0:52:48.280 --> 0:52:52.399 and we like instant gratification with short term thinkers. Most 0:52:52.440 --> 0:52:55.239 of us are buying into those courses. A lot of 0:52:55.280 --> 0:52:58.000 old people are buyding to those courses. And I get it. 0:52:58.040 --> 0:53:00.560 If some of those guys really know you believe in 0:53:00.600 --> 0:53:02.799 what they're doing, cool, you might just not know what 0:53:02.840 --> 0:53:06.200 you're doing. But most of the people I repeat that 0:53:06.280 --> 0:53:10.520 are trading do not know what they're doing. The wealthy 0:53:10.600 --> 0:53:14.320 trades like this. They take ten percent of their overall 0:53:14.400 --> 0:53:17.279 capital and they trade with it. They don't make the 0:53:17.320 --> 0:53:20.239 short term trades men. They wait for the one to 0:53:20.360 --> 0:53:24.320 two moves up that the market's gonna make every. 0:53:24.160 --> 0:53:26.759 Year, and they put their money in there. That's it. 0:53:27.600 --> 0:53:30.600 That's it. And when you have money already to meek, 0:53:30.760 --> 0:53:33.279 when you have money already, masan, you don't have to 0:53:33.320 --> 0:53:36.359 be so pressed for money. So we would think that 0:53:36.400 --> 0:53:38.640 the gon on Wall Street pulling up in the phantom 0:53:39.040 --> 0:53:42.239 with the security that he knows what me and my son, 0:53:42.480 --> 0:53:45.799 knows what my son's learning. He doesn't. He knows how 0:53:45.800 --> 0:53:50.280 to sell people into allowing them allowing him to manage 0:53:50.320 --> 0:53:54.080 their money. He only wants to do what you call 0:53:54.239 --> 0:53:56.800 beat the S and P five hundred every year. Nobody 0:53:56.840 --> 0:53:58.520 don't know what the S and P five hundred is. 0:53:59.000 --> 0:54:01.680 It is the standar gonna pour five hundred. It is 0:54:01.719 --> 0:54:05.359 a stock market indicator. So what it does is it 0:54:05.520 --> 0:54:10.560 tells you how the market is doing. Why because five 0:54:10.680 --> 0:54:13.640 hundred are the top companies, five hundred out of the 0:54:13.800 --> 0:54:17.120 nine thousand companies that's listing on the market is listed 0:54:17.160 --> 0:54:22.880 in that stop in that index, Apple, Tesla, Netflix, Amazon, Google, 0:54:23.200 --> 0:54:26.680 all the big names you know, Microsoft, Procler and Gamble, 0:54:26.960 --> 0:54:30.040 all Walmart, all the stuff we use is listed in 0:54:30.080 --> 0:54:33.759 that index. That also tells us how our economy is doing. 0:54:34.480 --> 0:54:36.680 So if that, if the stock market is used to 0:54:36.719 --> 0:54:40.279 tell us how our economy is doing, and we're not 0:54:40.440 --> 0:54:45.920 invested in it individually, then how is our household economics. 0:54:47.120 --> 0:54:50.320 Right to explain to them what the exactly what the 0:54:50.800 --> 0:54:52.000 challenge you have right now? 0:54:52.360 --> 0:54:55.040 So right now we got a thirty day challenge. I'm 0:54:55.040 --> 0:54:59.000 teaching people that the stock market is not a myth. 0:54:59.120 --> 0:55:00.960 Trade is not a myth. If my son will tell 0:55:00.960 --> 0:55:03.880 you I'm in there, I'm on all day. I'm telling 0:55:03.960 --> 0:55:06.680 my song. Where the stocks where the prices of the 0:55:06.719 --> 0:55:09.600 stocks that we're looking at us going, and we're making 0:55:09.640 --> 0:55:13.080 money off that. So the whole object is to pretty 0:55:13.120 --> 0:55:16.280 much let people know that it's not hoping, wishing, guessing 0:55:16.440 --> 0:55:19.839 or gambling. It's a skill set. And if you think 0:55:19.880 --> 0:55:22.680 it's anything other than that, you're gonna lose your money, 0:55:23.160 --> 0:55:25.239 and then you're gonna lose your spirit for it, and 0:55:25.280 --> 0:55:27.680 you're probably gonna lose your husband or wife I've had 0:55:27.920 --> 0:55:31.920 no no, no, no, no, no, no like that. 0:55:32.000 --> 0:55:34.719 No, I hear you, because I have friends that are 0:55:34.760 --> 0:55:38.839 addicted literally to trading, like this is what they do 0:55:38.920 --> 0:55:40.000 all day, all day, is it? 0:55:40.400 --> 0:55:43.120 And they lose and they may not know what they're doing. 0:55:43.200 --> 0:55:45.480 Maybe they do, I don't know, but they have they 0:55:45.520 --> 0:55:49.319 have significant issues in their lives because just like some 0:55:49.360 --> 0:55:53.799 people like pills, other people like whatever their their addictions. 0:55:53.760 --> 0:55:57.040 That's their twist. Yeah, And you know the problem with 0:55:57.120 --> 0:56:00.799 that is you know, if you know about something right, 0:56:00.840 --> 0:56:03.799 all right. So given the journey of giving back time 0:56:03.840 --> 0:56:07.680 to the fedes, it's an amazing journey, not just because 0:56:07.760 --> 0:56:11.080 I embarked on anybody who have because that system is 0:56:11.120 --> 0:56:13.560 so complex that in order for you to beat it, 0:56:13.600 --> 0:56:16.959 you got to understand it. So now when I speak 0:56:17.000 --> 0:56:19.680 of FEDS, when people speak in a reform, you know, 0:56:20.160 --> 0:56:23.320 I kind of like, you, like make me cringe because 0:56:23.360 --> 0:56:27.040 do you really understand what the system is about? You know, 0:56:27.960 --> 0:56:30.279 because I know guys that got thirty years and it 0:56:30.400 --> 0:56:33.479 still don't understand the system. I know guys that got 0:56:33.600 --> 0:56:36.279 millions of dollars they're still in there, well, some of 0:56:36.320 --> 0:56:38.560 which Obama let home shout out to them. I ain't 0:56:38.600 --> 0:56:41.480 gonna put their name out, but didn't understand the system. 0:56:42.400 --> 0:56:46.880 The drug lords sat amongst me, How you do this? 0:56:47.520 --> 0:56:50.960 How are you doing this? Yeah? Like this some of them. 0:56:51.080 --> 0:56:53.399 I even use some things from their case to help 0:56:53.400 --> 0:56:55.600 me in my case. Yeah. 0:56:56.000 --> 0:56:56.520 Yeah. 0:56:56.840 --> 0:56:59.360 So it's the same thing with the US stock market. 0:57:00.040 --> 0:57:03.560 It's a system. It's an economic system. So if you 0:57:03.680 --> 0:57:07.880 understand it, just generally, you can take advantage of it. 0:57:08.280 --> 0:57:10.880 What I've what I've learned over the last couple of 0:57:10.920 --> 0:57:14.840 weeks just dealing with you, because you always this. Santino 0:57:15.080 --> 0:57:18.440 is very adamant about you doing the study and not 0:57:18.560 --> 0:57:20.880 just listening to what he says. Like he doesn't want 0:57:20.880 --> 0:57:23.160 you to just be there saying, oh, saying what you do. No, 0:57:23.240 --> 0:57:25.960 I want you to I'm giving you this knowledge, and 0:57:26.000 --> 0:57:28.000 I want you to study. Days that you're not on 0:57:28.160 --> 0:57:30.000 here with me. I need you to go take a 0:57:30.080 --> 0:57:32.560 couple hours and look into it and study what I 0:57:32.600 --> 0:57:34.160 said to you, and look at the trade, and look 0:57:34.160 --> 0:57:36.680 at the s P five hundred, all of these things. 0:57:36.960 --> 0:57:41.440 And what I've learned is that wealth in this country 0:57:41.520 --> 0:57:44.080 is generated in this. Like you don't You're not gonna 0:57:44.120 --> 0:57:47.320 get wealth working every day and doing all this people 0:57:47.440 --> 0:57:50.880 make wealth investing their money in this and in the 0:57:50.920 --> 0:57:53.600 stock market, and realist, like, do you have to invest 0:57:53.640 --> 0:57:56.840 your money to acquire wealth? It's not you going to 0:57:56.880 --> 0:57:59.400 work every day and doing the right thing like and 0:57:59.400 --> 0:58:01.360 and that's one of things that I respected about him 0:58:01.840 --> 0:58:03.920 is that he respected what I do so much and 0:58:03.920 --> 0:58:07.200 which you do so much. And he was like, people 0:58:07.240 --> 0:58:09.959 that do what we do should not have to worry 0:58:09.960 --> 0:58:12.160 about finance. That's right, Like we should be able to 0:58:12.160 --> 0:58:14.520 do what it is we do and not worry about finances. 0:58:14.520 --> 0:58:16.600 And his goal is like I want to be able 0:58:16.640 --> 0:58:19.200 to put you in a position to where finances is 0:58:19.240 --> 0:58:21.960 not a thing, so that you can do be on 0:58:22.000 --> 0:58:24.040 the front line doing the work. Then you and Tamika 0:58:24.120 --> 0:58:25.800 do the work that y'all need to do for our people, 0:58:25.840 --> 0:58:28.560 because it is it's a shame. 0:58:28.400 --> 0:58:30.000 That Malcolm X died without money. 0:58:30.040 --> 0:58:33.440 It's a shame that Martin Luther King died worried about 0:58:33.440 --> 0:58:34.120 Marcus Garvey. 0:58:34.240 --> 0:58:36.080 Mark wanted to bring us back. He had no money 0:58:36.080 --> 0:58:38.880 for that. That was serious, you know, would have cost 0:58:38.880 --> 0:58:42.200 a lot, just you know, the espionage part of it, right, 0:58:42.320 --> 0:58:44.720 having a sneak out. You know, you think they wanted 0:58:44.760 --> 0:58:47.120 us to go back. You know what I'm saying. So 0:58:48.040 --> 0:58:49.280 money is important. 0:58:49.400 --> 0:58:50.920 So what are your success stories? 0:58:51.000 --> 0:58:53.720 Like, give us some things that you've done, and you're like, Okay, 0:58:53.880 --> 0:58:57.880 this was when you knew I'm getting somewhere here. 0:58:59.000 --> 0:59:02.400 Well, I kind of knew it when I was in 0:59:02.400 --> 0:59:06.480 incarcerated Informationally, I knew this was something different, and I 0:59:06.520 --> 0:59:09.120 knew the way I was learning it was different, right, 0:59:09.600 --> 0:59:13.360 and the conversations I was having was different. It was 0:59:13.440 --> 0:59:16.240 like I'm telling you, man, that adrenaline rush coming from 0:59:16.240 --> 0:59:18.680 where I come from. Like I'm the puncher teacher and 0:59:18.720 --> 0:59:21.080 the face guy. You know, I got kicked out of 0:59:21.160 --> 0:59:21.840 every school. 0:59:21.880 --> 0:59:22.200 Brother. 0:59:22.720 --> 0:59:24.640 You know what I'm saying, Like, I don't do school, 0:59:25.120 --> 0:59:27.600 and I just want everybody out here to know that 0:59:27.720 --> 0:59:30.360 come from that type of background. Man, it ain't nothing 0:59:30.400 --> 0:59:33.280 you can't do. You just got to buckle down and 0:59:33.480 --> 0:59:36.880 want to do it. So one of my success stories 0:59:36.920 --> 0:59:38.960 is when I first got home and I finally opened 0:59:39.000 --> 0:59:41.680 my account. I got my first check. I was working 0:59:41.720 --> 0:59:43.800 at the Hilton. I was a prep cook at the 0:59:43.880 --> 0:59:47.320 Hilton shot Hills, Right, I got my first check. It 0:59:47.400 --> 0:59:50.040 was like nine hundred bucks. I put five hundred of it. 0:59:50.080 --> 0:59:52.520 I paid my metro PCs. I gave my mother one 0:59:52.600 --> 0:59:55.920 hundred bucks. I'm sleeping on her couch. I forgot what 0:59:55.960 --> 0:59:58.280 I did. I think I was smoking that vape stuff 0:59:58.320 --> 1:00:00.360 at the time. I brought me a vape and then 1:00:00.440 --> 1:00:03.440 I got me. I put five hundred dollars in my 1:00:03.600 --> 1:00:08.320 Tasty Works account and I traded bookings dot com. Back then, 1:00:08.360 --> 1:00:10.680 it was called price line. Y'all know, price line, y'all 1:00:10.720 --> 1:00:14.080 book y'all flights. So price line. Price line at the 1:00:14.120 --> 1:00:17.440 time was like a fifteen hundred dollars a share stock. 1:00:17.480 --> 1:00:21.960 It's still very expensive stock, right, So I put my 1:00:22.000 --> 1:00:24.880 money into it five hundred dollars. I got an option. 1:00:24.960 --> 1:00:27.280 It's called the call option. If you buying a call option, 1:00:27.400 --> 1:00:30.280 you expect price to go up. If you buy put option, 1:00:30.400 --> 1:00:32.960 you expecting price to go down. So I brought a 1:00:33.000 --> 1:00:35.800 call option. I'm expecting price to go up. That five 1:00:35.840 --> 1:00:40.040 hundred dollars turned into seventy two hundred, and I really 1:00:40.120 --> 1:00:43.080 didn't know why to be honest with you, Cause to 1:00:43.200 --> 1:00:47.080 study the options in the stocks and the economics, and 1:00:47.120 --> 1:00:49.160 then to come home and to put it into action, 1:00:50.640 --> 1:00:54.200 it's different. I'm gonna be honest with you though. That 1:00:54.400 --> 1:01:00.480 was my first time seeing money actually transact. I went 1:01:00.680 --> 1:01:03.920 and I looked out the window. I said, no, somebody 1:01:04.000 --> 1:01:09.760 coming for this this can I stopped closing the blonde. Man, listen, 1:01:09.760 --> 1:01:12.040 I'm just coming home. I'm on my mother couch. I said, 1:01:12.040 --> 1:01:14.200 it is about to get real, you know. But even 1:01:14.240 --> 1:01:16.640 then I still didn't have a full grasp on what 1:01:16.720 --> 1:01:18.840 I was doing. You know, I knew more than the 1:01:18.880 --> 1:01:23.120 average joe, but his pockets. 1:01:22.000 --> 1:01:28.440 The difference between reading and learning and experiencing and practicing. 1:01:28.560 --> 1:01:30.120 So you were at the practice point. 1:01:30.320 --> 1:01:32.640 So one of the things my mentor taught me, he said, 1:01:32.680 --> 1:01:36.800 be patient. He said, you know you ain't a patient guy. 1:01:37.280 --> 1:01:39.200 And he said, you're gonna learn who you are trading. 1:01:39.600 --> 1:01:43.439 So he didn't allow us to trade inside the fat well, 1:01:43.520 --> 1:01:46.040 not that he didn't allow us, and he discouraged that. 1:01:46.160 --> 1:01:48.200 He said, don't try to trade in here like the 1:01:48.200 --> 1:01:50.720 rest of these guys. You know, you got your family 1:01:50.800 --> 1:01:53.440 running around picking up that they don't know. Stop it. 1:01:53.840 --> 1:01:56.400 So when he tell those guys that, they don't listen. 1:01:56.440 --> 1:02:01.280 So now you see guys on the walkway wall street quick, Yeah, man, 1:02:01.520 --> 1:02:03.480 my girl in such and such, such and such, and 1:02:03.480 --> 1:02:05.880 he's like, man, I told you, man, you know so 1:02:05.960 --> 1:02:08.200 I always listen. Plus I didn't have the currency to 1:02:08.240 --> 1:02:10.479 do it anyway, you know. I mean I probably could 1:02:10.480 --> 1:02:12.240 have had my people run around to do something, But 1:02:12.280 --> 1:02:14.600 who wants to do all of that at this point? 1:02:14.680 --> 1:02:17.760 I'm changing my life anyway. So when you when you 1:02:17.920 --> 1:02:20.880 change and you're not going back to jail, that's less 1:02:20.880 --> 1:02:24.600 you put on your family. Wow, you start to learn 1:02:24.720 --> 1:02:27.880 to give your family a break. You see what I'm saying. 1:02:28.520 --> 1:02:28.880 Change? 1:02:29.040 --> 1:02:31.600 Yeah, I'm good talking about this all the time because 1:02:31.960 --> 1:02:36.320 we both have friends that are incarcerated or family members 1:02:36.680 --> 1:02:39.480 and they call you like you you work for them, 1:02:39.640 --> 1:02:42.840 like you know, it's like bossing you around. They mad 1:02:43.120 --> 1:02:45.919 and all the time there's a problem. So you're saying 1:02:45.920 --> 1:02:46.760 they haven't really changed. 1:02:46.760 --> 1:02:48.880 They always want to put in some motion to come home. 1:02:49.960 --> 1:02:51.880 Got some motion, man, some new law came down. 1:02:52.280 --> 1:02:54.080 But I mean, you know, I get it. 1:02:54.120 --> 1:02:56.200 I support that, but I just don't know how it 1:02:56.240 --> 1:02:58.960 became my problem exactly. 1:02:59.000 --> 1:02:59.040 Not. 1:02:59.240 --> 1:03:03.000 It's not even like they're hoping you will help. Is 1:03:03.040 --> 1:03:03.640 a demand? 1:03:03.920 --> 1:03:05.360 What happened to it being a gift? 1:03:05.720 --> 1:03:08.240 Well, my song is different because when his friends start that, 1:03:08.400 --> 1:03:08.840 he knows. 1:03:08.720 --> 1:03:11.680 How to talk to them, because me, I don't know much. 1:03:11.920 --> 1:03:13.720 So then he'll say to me, like, you have to 1:03:13.760 --> 1:03:16.600 tell what is going on here? Like stop, what are 1:03:16.640 --> 1:03:17.480 you doing? 1:03:17.080 --> 1:03:19.960 You're doing too much? Nah? Nah, No more of that, 1:03:20.720 --> 1:03:23.640 because what is he doing there? You gonna understand God's 1:03:23.680 --> 1:03:25.880 being all type of stuff in jail. They taking their 1:03:25.920 --> 1:03:29.040 family money, they buying drugs, they gambling, they doing all 1:03:29.080 --> 1:03:31.840 type of stuff. So you know, go on and on 1:03:31.880 --> 1:03:35.360 about it again. So again change starts where you stop 1:03:35.440 --> 1:03:37.840 putting so much on your family and you realize it 1:03:37.880 --> 1:03:40.680 ain't their fight, bro, and you realize they shouldn't have 1:03:40.720 --> 1:03:42.920 been codding on you in the first place. Because my 1:03:43.000 --> 1:03:45.120 friends who family didn't call on them, they ain't go 1:03:45.160 --> 1:03:48.360 back to jail. I got a cup. Matter of fact, eight, 1:03:48.440 --> 1:03:51.760 that's a con story. Listen to a con story. His 1:03:51.880 --> 1:03:54.120 mother told him, you got one call, your father said, 1:03:54.520 --> 1:04:01.560 who you want? He go back to jail. He became acon. 1:04:01.920 --> 1:04:05.000 So and this is the thing we called it. It's okay, 1:04:05.840 --> 1:04:06.400 it's okay. 1:04:06.480 --> 1:04:09.800 It's hard though, it's very hard. It's very difficult. 1:04:09.880 --> 1:04:10.439 No, it's hard. 1:04:10.920 --> 1:04:13.920 It is especially it's hard because you can't you know, 1:04:14.200 --> 1:04:16.960 we have a friend right now who her son did 1:04:17.000 --> 1:04:21.040 something so stupid. I mean, it's just so stupid and 1:04:21.080 --> 1:04:24.960 he's doing time. He really this and I'm watching his 1:04:25.120 --> 1:04:29.880 growth as she posts video photos after visits, and you 1:04:29.920 --> 1:04:32.320 can see that he grew up a lot from when 1:04:32.320 --> 1:04:34.480 he first got there. When he first went in there, 1:04:34.840 --> 1:04:37.040 I couldn't sleep. And he's not even my child, because 1:04:37.080 --> 1:04:39.760 I know this boy was a little like kid, you 1:04:39.800 --> 1:04:41.920 know what I mean, And now he's growing up. But 1:04:42.040 --> 1:04:46.000 I know she hardly sleeps because she's worrying about. 1:04:45.880 --> 1:04:48.040 I mean, I can only imagine, man. I mean, I 1:04:48.080 --> 1:04:50.560 watched my mother get older every time she went up there. 1:04:51.080 --> 1:04:54.520 You know, my mother just beat cancer. And I really 1:04:54.560 --> 1:04:58.440 truly believe that federal situation because my brother in law said, man, 1:04:58.720 --> 1:05:01.040 I don't want to put none on you, but your 1:05:01.120 --> 1:05:03.800 mother starts smoking so much when you was in that 1:05:03.840 --> 1:05:05.440 federal situation. 1:05:07.240 --> 1:05:09.720 Because every day the TV is telling you, I mean, 1:05:09.760 --> 1:05:11.760 look at Robert Brooks, look at what just happened to 1:05:11.800 --> 1:05:12.160 this man. 1:05:12.200 --> 1:05:13.440 They beat this man to death. 1:05:13.880 --> 1:05:17.720 I called my friend immediately after that video came out 1:05:17.760 --> 1:05:21.960 of the police at Marcie Correctional Facility beating on this man, 1:05:22.320 --> 1:05:25.920 because I know that's her worst fear and she was incarcerated. 1:05:26.440 --> 1:05:28.960 While being incarcerated, she went through a lot of things, 1:05:28.960 --> 1:05:33.360 sexual assault from CEOs, just everything, you know, not being able, 1:05:33.440 --> 1:05:35.440 you couldn't give food unless she was willing to do 1:05:35.520 --> 1:05:38.080 certain things in the jail. She went through a lot, 1:05:38.280 --> 1:05:41.120 and so for her son to go there, it's the 1:05:41.160 --> 1:05:44.400 worst thing ever, It's the worst thing for her. I mean, 1:05:44.440 --> 1:05:47.760 she's she feels worse. I think she's she feels worse 1:05:47.800 --> 1:05:52.280 about him being there than if she had never been incarcerated. Really, 1:05:52.680 --> 1:05:55.040 and I know when she saw that video that it 1:05:55.120 --> 1:05:57.440 was probably gonna make her lose her mind. And of 1:05:57.480 --> 1:06:00.800 course she's like scared to death. Went to visit her 1:06:00.800 --> 1:06:03.200 son the next day, like is anything happening in here? 1:06:03.520 --> 1:06:05.960 And his position at this point is like it doesn't 1:06:05.960 --> 1:06:07.479 even make sense for us to talk about it because 1:06:07.480 --> 1:06:09.000 you can't do anything for me. 1:06:09.200 --> 1:06:12.760 Yeah, yeah, wow, Wow, it's something. And Mike, you know, 1:06:12.840 --> 1:06:16.320 from you know, like especially over here in New York, 1:06:16.520 --> 1:06:19.360 like the stories we hear over here, from real stories 1:06:19.400 --> 1:06:21.760 from guys that have been over there, Like the way 1:06:22.080 --> 1:06:25.840 the corrections is ran. You know, it's lawless, it's barbaric. 1:06:25.880 --> 1:06:27.760 It's almost as if they get the same kind of 1:06:27.800 --> 1:06:29.560 people that we are to watch over us. 1:06:29.600 --> 1:06:31.600 That's exactly what this. 1:06:31.960 --> 1:06:34.360 See what I'm saying, Like they find it's like they trainer. 1:06:34.400 --> 1:06:37.000 You got to be a certain caliber. You know, the 1:06:37.080 --> 1:06:39.840 state the southern State prisons in New Jersey, it's the 1:06:39.880 --> 1:06:40.400 same thing. 1:06:41.160 --> 1:06:43.800 And the further you get upstate, you're basically dealing with 1:06:43.920 --> 1:06:44.520 people who. 1:06:47.200 --> 1:06:51.080 I had that used to come to just come to 1:06:51.640 --> 1:06:55.120 our unit just to fuck with me. Like it was 1:06:55.160 --> 1:06:57.000 to the point, but he wasn't smarter than me. So 1:06:57.800 --> 1:07:00.120 I would just go into my inside my cuban just 1:07:00.240 --> 1:07:03.240 not come out. His whole shift, his shift would be 1:07:03.400 --> 1:07:05.680 me reading books, writing music. 1:07:05.800 --> 1:07:06.760 I wouldn't even come out. 1:07:06.960 --> 1:07:08.920 Ain't that amazing how we found all way in there? 1:07:09.360 --> 1:07:11.080 You know how many of us got the same story. 1:07:11.160 --> 1:07:13.680 Yeah, And it was to the point where the other 1:07:13.840 --> 1:07:17.680 CEOs that used to came, the other CEOs that came 1:07:17.680 --> 1:07:19.520 on after him, one of he was like he was 1:07:19.560 --> 1:07:22.720 like the meanest CEO, but he he have respect for 1:07:22.800 --> 1:07:24.560 me because I was in the dorm for like three years. 1:07:25.480 --> 1:07:26.520 You know, I conducted myself. 1:07:26.560 --> 1:07:29.320 I pretty much controlled the doing, but not on a 1:07:29.400 --> 1:07:31.360 bullsh but I made sure it was all in the dorm. 1:07:31.480 --> 1:07:34.000 I made sure we all got along. Ya ain't fighting 1:07:34.000 --> 1:07:34.680 over no TV. 1:07:34.720 --> 1:07:37.360 We're gonna we're gonna live in his house properly, and 1:07:37.400 --> 1:07:39.560 he knew I moved like that. So he went to 1:07:39.600 --> 1:07:41.680 the CEOs like, yo, why are you messing with him? 1:07:41.920 --> 1:07:44.280 Like he don't funk with nobody like leave. He told 1:07:44.360 --> 1:07:46.640 him leave him alone, to the point where one night 1:07:46.680 --> 1:07:48.760 he came on a shift and apologize to me, like, yo, 1:07:49.160 --> 1:07:50.880 I apologize to mess with you. 1:07:51.120 --> 1:07:52.560 Officer told me how good you are? 1:07:52.640 --> 1:07:55.800 I apologized and he shook my hand and I never 1:07:55.880 --> 1:07:57.640 had an issue with him after that. 1:07:58.480 --> 1:08:02.160 Un Listen, man, I got from downstate where CEO's got, 1:08:02.640 --> 1:08:07.919 you know, and these are these are knownly racist places, right, 1:08:08.080 --> 1:08:12.960 And I've seen gang members who taken payments from officers 1:08:13.480 --> 1:08:19.520 to jump on other inmates because they're putting in grievances 1:08:19.560 --> 1:08:23.200 on CEOs, They're putting in a grievance for the whole unit. 1:08:24.160 --> 1:08:28.040 Yeah, the Robert Brooks situation has exposed a lot that 1:08:28.080 --> 1:08:31.040 we already knew about. But one of the things that 1:08:31.080 --> 1:08:34.000 they said is that like in places like Marcie and 1:08:34.080 --> 1:08:37.920 other prisons upstate, one of the biggest problems that they 1:08:38.040 --> 1:08:42.840 have is the CEOs selling drugs and having the the 1:08:43.000 --> 1:08:49.040 incarcerated individuals. We don't say, inmates, the incarcerated individuals selling 1:08:49.120 --> 1:08:51.880 drugs for them, which creates all types of drama in 1:08:51.880 --> 1:08:53.960 the jail. So they're like, if we could get the 1:08:54.040 --> 1:08:58.479 drug dealing, Like these are actual people who are incarcerated saying, 1:08:58.720 --> 1:09:01.280 if we can get the drug dealing under control, things 1:09:01.280 --> 1:09:02.280 could calm down here. 1:09:02.320 --> 1:09:04.920 But it's basically being running like you out on the street. 1:09:04.840 --> 1:09:08.240 Exactly, you know, exactly listen, it's lawless man. 1:09:08.720 --> 1:09:11.200 Now do you think if would you say that you're 1:09:11.280 --> 1:09:13.759 in a place in life where you would tell a person, 1:09:13.920 --> 1:09:15.479 let me put this other thing in your hand. 1:09:15.560 --> 1:09:16.879 Because one of the things that. 1:09:17.479 --> 1:09:19.360 My son and I always talk about is if we're 1:09:19.360 --> 1:09:22.400 out here telling people stop the violence, and you know, 1:09:22.560 --> 1:09:24.559 he's like, I need to offer them something, like I 1:09:24.640 --> 1:09:26.720 gotta have something else. You can't just tell a kid 1:09:26.800 --> 1:09:29.360 put the gun down and you'll give them anything. Would 1:09:29.360 --> 1:09:32.240 you say that what you offer is something else to 1:09:32.320 --> 1:09:32.800 pick up? 1:09:33.240 --> 1:09:33.439 Oh? 1:09:33.520 --> 1:09:36.600 Definitely, definitely. It's something that you know, me from a 1:09:36.640 --> 1:09:41.320 psychological standpoint, it feeds you know, they said out ADHD 1:09:41.520 --> 1:09:44.760 or ad D whatever it's called. It feeds that for me, yeah, right, 1:09:44.840 --> 1:09:46.920 and a lot of us they claim we suffer from it. 1:09:47.040 --> 1:09:51.040 I call it geniusness right, because definitely all the people 1:09:51.040 --> 1:09:58.600 who said America, look for the people with a d 1:09:58.760 --> 1:10:01.479 d adhd are and look with the people who said 1:10:01.479 --> 1:10:06.160 they had add ADHD. Look where they are. And I'm 1:10:06.200 --> 1:10:10.000 not no smiteing nobody. Don't forget what you call you know, 1:10:10.320 --> 1:10:10.960 don't forget me. 1:10:11.000 --> 1:10:11.479 That's funny. 1:10:11.560 --> 1:10:14.160 My son, he's like, I got eight, told somebody the 1:10:14.200 --> 1:10:15.560 other day I have ADHD. 1:10:16.120 --> 1:10:18.040 So I'm dealing with a lot of things, you know 1:10:18.080 --> 1:10:18.519 what I mean. 1:10:20.120 --> 1:10:22.000 You know, I remember once time when he was young, 1:10:22.040 --> 1:10:24.160 he was like, do they have you keep saying I 1:10:24.200 --> 1:10:27.360 have it? Where's the medicine or something? 1:10:27.920 --> 1:10:33.880 You know it's but it feed it? Does it feeds you? 1:10:35.720 --> 1:10:39.280 I think if if kids, if kids do learn this 1:10:39.560 --> 1:10:43.679 at younger ages, like learning this lets them know there's 1:10:43.720 --> 1:10:47.479 nothing else you can't learn. So with age what age 1:10:48.640 --> 1:10:51.760 early as possible. I think mice know he was in 1:10:51.800 --> 1:10:54.439 the challenge. I tell the people that's in the challenge, like, listen, 1:10:54.520 --> 1:10:56.639 don't run the kids out of the room. Kids should 1:10:56.680 --> 1:11:00.200 be on your lap. They should be hearing this, subconscious 1:11:00.200 --> 1:11:02.639 having it, yeah, entering it should be Yeah, it should 1:11:02.720 --> 1:11:06.000 just be there. It's background noise for them because that's 1:11:06.040 --> 1:11:08.559 how they gravitate towards you. You can't force nothing on 1:11:08.640 --> 1:11:11.840 nobody because then they'll reject it and won't get back 1:11:11.880 --> 1:11:14.599 to it Untilday thirty five or I remember my father 1:11:14.720 --> 1:11:16.240 used to be on my mother used to be trying 1:11:16.240 --> 1:11:18.600 to give me this. Now you back on it. No, 1:11:19.200 --> 1:11:22.400 if depending on who you are, if you ain't running 1:11:22.400 --> 1:11:24.640 them away from it. Oh, get out of this room, boy, No, 1:11:24.920 --> 1:11:27.200 come in this room. You're looking. Oh, come in you 1:11:27.200 --> 1:11:29.639 can see what I'm doing. You know, that type of thing, 1:11:30.040 --> 1:11:32.360 and it'll resonate on them. But as far as kids 1:11:32.479 --> 1:11:36.519 is concerned, yes, the youth, the kids from the hood, 1:11:36.520 --> 1:11:39.240 the ghetto, the underprivileged kids. Yes, they should be learning 1:11:39.280 --> 1:11:41.800 this skill set. Me and him already talked about it. 1:11:41.840 --> 1:11:44.519 You know, once the school and everything is established, we 1:11:44.640 --> 1:11:46.840 definitely have to run some sort of curriculum to do 1:11:46.880 --> 1:11:50.120 there because this has to be in every household, because 1:11:50.200 --> 1:11:54.080 every household have these very same products stacked. 1:11:53.760 --> 1:11:57.680 Up in their household, right, the things that you're trading, Yeah. 1:11:57.320 --> 1:12:01.840 Yeah, using it, So anybody else is in this big 1:12:02.160 --> 1:12:05.960 reciprocal system of money, because that's all it is. Money 1:12:06.000 --> 1:12:09.880 is a reciprocal tool. It's never off the grid. Every 1:12:09.880 --> 1:12:13.000 bit of money's counted for. There's nothing off the grid. 1:12:13.040 --> 1:12:16.280 That's why they don't like counterfeit, right, because now you're 1:12:16.280 --> 1:12:20.160 messing up the circulation. So who's circulating the most is 1:12:20.200 --> 1:12:22.600 the question? Who's getting the most out of it? So 1:12:22.640 --> 1:12:26.320 you circulate it just to acquire assets, So who's acquiring 1:12:26.320 --> 1:12:30.360 the most assets? Right? Like Mysan said, you know, even 1:12:30.400 --> 1:12:33.040 I speak to some of my homies this in the 1:12:33.120 --> 1:12:36.400 rap game, and I say, you know, you already know 1:12:36.640 --> 1:12:38.680 if you go do something, you're gonna get money in 1:12:38.720 --> 1:12:41.719 exchange for that. Or if you got royalties of music 1:12:41.760 --> 1:12:45.040 out there, or publishing rights, you're gonna get mechanical license, 1:12:45.120 --> 1:12:47.400 whatever you got, you're gonna get money in exchange for that. 1:12:47.600 --> 1:12:47.800 Right. 1:12:48.200 --> 1:12:51.160 But what happens to that money after you get it? 1:12:51.840 --> 1:12:52.080 Right? 1:12:52.439 --> 1:12:55.599 Because if you don't wake up and go get those things, 1:12:55.680 --> 1:12:58.320 I don't know how your situation working, but the checks 1:12:58.360 --> 1:13:04.080 may slow up, you know exactly. So now what you're 1:13:04.120 --> 1:13:10.320 doing is you guys can't even fathom flipping money because 1:13:10.320 --> 1:13:13.479 you don't have to flip money to make money. So 1:13:13.600 --> 1:13:17.559 you guys are in saving mode, and which is what 1:13:17.600 --> 1:13:20.600 most of America's in saving mode. Our parents just save it, 1:13:20.720 --> 1:13:23.000 just save it, save it. What you saving for you 1:13:23.040 --> 1:13:25.400 don't save you put it to work. You save a 1:13:25.439 --> 1:13:28.880 percentage because you never know what's gonna happen. Cash is 1:13:28.880 --> 1:13:32.720 always good at some point, right, coins, gold, whatever you 1:13:32.760 --> 1:13:35.599 can have if you at that point. But for the 1:13:35.600 --> 1:13:41.719 most part, we need to have money circulating while we're sleeping, 1:13:43.720 --> 1:13:46.759 circulating because if you're waking up, what are you waking 1:13:46.840 --> 1:13:47.400 up to do. 1:13:48.680 --> 1:13:49.479 To get money? 1:13:49.720 --> 1:13:51.880 Yeah, and the work and if you if you, if 1:13:51.880 --> 1:13:54.600 you're going to sleep, and that's the that's a conversation 1:13:54.720 --> 1:13:55.519 that a lot. 1:13:55.360 --> 1:13:58.599 Of you gotta pay you, you gotta pay you back. 1:13:59.040 --> 1:14:02.120 You get enough to go, So why you sleep? Wouertain 1:14:02.200 --> 1:14:02.599 it to you. 1:14:02.840 --> 1:14:06.200 Having that conversation with wottain it to you money. 1:14:06.240 --> 1:14:09.599 Your money should be making you may while you dollarge 1:14:09.760 --> 1:14:11.439 monthly will. 1:14:11.360 --> 1:14:14.760 Make money while you were sleep. Last night, I woke up. 1:14:15.640 --> 1:14:17.200 I woke up and was like, Oh, this is what's 1:14:17.240 --> 1:14:19.160 going on. It's then jumped up. 1:14:19.960 --> 1:14:22.200 So that's that's the whole thing. That's the whole point, 1:14:22.280 --> 1:14:24.240 you know. It's it's like I said, back to the 1:14:24.280 --> 1:14:30.200 simple systems, right insurance, real estate, trust, trust. 1:14:30.360 --> 1:14:34.240 I had to learn trust, buy hell fire because my 1:14:34.320 --> 1:14:37.160 mom had a stroke and she was in the hospital. 1:14:37.520 --> 1:14:40.040 And then of course, you know, first of all, so 1:14:40.240 --> 1:14:42.759 many of our people and I was one of those people, 1:14:43.040 --> 1:14:46.439 knew nothing about what to do when the person is 1:14:46.520 --> 1:14:49.560 not deceased but they're incapacity. 1:14:49.600 --> 1:14:51.560 Yeah, because you're that's going to have had that conversation. 1:14:51.720 --> 1:14:54.640 Well, it's a tough I mean from a business perspective, 1:14:54.680 --> 1:14:57.760 because it's like, I don't know that. I guess we've 1:14:57.800 --> 1:15:00.320 never been taught that you are a business. Just you 1:15:00.360 --> 1:15:02.640 by yourself, Now tell ma what you do. Just so 1:15:02.680 --> 1:15:06.000 about you walking around. It's a business because even if 1:15:06.040 --> 1:15:09.120 you die, if anybody cares about you, it costs money 1:15:09.120 --> 1:15:14.439 to Burra. You're a product, right, And so so with 1:15:14.600 --> 1:15:20.320 my mom's situation, you know, she being incapacitated but not 1:15:20.400 --> 1:15:24.479 deceased means that decisions can't be made on her behalf, 1:15:24.920 --> 1:15:29.200 certain decisions, even by her husband. And then she wakes 1:15:29.280 --> 1:15:31.760 up from and that that's where the trick because when 1:15:31.800 --> 1:15:34.559 she was in a coma, he could make any decision. 1:15:35.120 --> 1:15:37.280 She was very incapacitated. 1:15:37.640 --> 1:15:40.240 As soon as she woke up, the power was no 1:15:40.360 --> 1:15:43.240 longer in my father's hands and they were asking her 1:15:43.360 --> 1:15:48.080 questions while she clearly is not even able to understand 1:15:48.120 --> 1:15:51.160 everything that's going on, And we had to figure out 1:15:51.200 --> 1:15:54.200 the power of attorney, which means nothing at some point. 1:15:54.320 --> 1:15:55.400 It really is not. 1:15:56.040 --> 1:15:59.880 You need a will, you need a trust, you need 1:16:00.080 --> 1:16:02.280 all of those things. Because even with the powers. 1:16:02.080 --> 1:16:06.240 Somebody to come in and handle your affairs, yees. So 1:16:06.280 --> 1:16:09.320 the principle of that, right, what's gonna come in and 1:16:09.360 --> 1:16:12.280 handle help you handle those affairs? When that happens, you 1:16:12.320 --> 1:16:15.400 see what I'm saying, because it does get tricky, She's right, 1:16:15.479 --> 1:16:16.920 And then it gets tricky amongst your. 1:16:16.800 --> 1:16:19.400 Own family, well it does, and thank god, in our situation, 1:16:19.600 --> 1:16:22.880 it's very streamlined because it's not that many of us, 1:16:22.880 --> 1:16:25.440 and also the way that they raised us. But nonetheless, 1:16:25.520 --> 1:16:29.600 I could see where because I'm the youngest, if my 1:16:29.760 --> 1:16:33.120 sister who's older than me, was an asshole and she 1:16:33.280 --> 1:16:36.280 decided to run stuff, who knows what would have happened, 1:16:36.320 --> 1:16:37.000 you know what I mean. 1:16:37.120 --> 1:16:38.360 So it was a lot. 1:16:38.439 --> 1:16:40.360 And my dad here, he is, his wife, he's been 1:16:40.360 --> 1:16:41.839 married to her almost fifty years. 1:16:42.160 --> 1:16:44.439 She has a stroke out of nowhere. One day. 1:16:44.840 --> 1:16:47.719 He wants to be broke down. But you can't even 1:16:48.240 --> 1:16:49.559 you can't even break down. 1:16:49.720 --> 1:16:50.479 That's crazy. 1:16:51.080 --> 1:16:55.040 You can't even cry too much because it's paperwork moving 1:16:55.080 --> 1:16:58.240 and people shifting and decisions being made. So the best 1:16:58.280 --> 1:17:00.439 thing to do is to do all this stuff in 1:17:00.520 --> 1:17:04.400 advance while you're healthy, so that when when and if 1:17:04.439 --> 1:17:07.920 God forbid, something happens, things just kind of kick into 1:17:08.000 --> 1:17:10.000 place and I just you know, not. 1:17:10.000 --> 1:17:12.400 Anything we don't have. Things may happen later. Man, We 1:17:12.439 --> 1:17:14.920 know all most stresses, ninety percent of stress is tied 1:17:14.960 --> 1:17:20.120 the money. We live in a money pressured world, like 1:17:20.200 --> 1:17:22.720 that's where we live. We're pressured to have money, right, 1:17:22.720 --> 1:17:24.519 you have to have money. You gotta have money. So 1:17:24.880 --> 1:17:27.439 so just think about it. If you know your trust 1:17:27.479 --> 1:17:29.640 is in play with somebody to run it, if you 1:17:29.760 --> 1:17:32.519 know you got life insurance, if you know you got stocks, 1:17:32.640 --> 1:17:35.280 if you know you ain't got to break your neck 1:17:35.320 --> 1:17:36.880 to pay a bill or figure out where you're going 1:17:36.960 --> 1:17:41.240 to get money from, and some for some people that's unfathomable. 1:17:41.920 --> 1:17:44.479 Some people can't imagine being that caught up in life. 1:17:45.040 --> 1:17:46.960 But when you are that caught up in life, that's 1:17:46.960 --> 1:17:49.040 going to have years to your life, unless you know, 1:17:49.160 --> 1:17:51.160 depending on what else you're doing on the side. But 1:17:51.760 --> 1:17:54.000 if you're that type of person to have those things 1:17:54.040 --> 1:17:56.439 in order, then you got other things in order in 1:17:56.439 --> 1:17:59.600 your life as well, unless somebody set it up for you. 1:17:59.600 --> 1:18:01.960 You see, know what I'm saying, because we talking LLC 1:18:02.600 --> 1:18:06.639 or some type of corporation, right, We're talking trusts, and 1:18:06.800 --> 1:18:09.160 a lot of people hear these things in combination and 1:18:09.200 --> 1:18:11.000 they're like, oh, here they go talking that again. But 1:18:11.040 --> 1:18:13.880 it's real. These are the secrets of the wealthy. You 1:18:13.880 --> 1:18:16.519 want to hide your taxes, figure out the corporate structure. 1:18:17.280 --> 1:18:19.559 You heard what Trump said, Yeah, I just figured I've 1:18:19.640 --> 1:18:22.160 used it. The lords y'all made to hide my money. 1:18:22.280 --> 1:18:24.640 Listen, I've been telling people from day one. You know, 1:18:24.720 --> 1:18:28.880 I get it, you know, and I understand that. You know, people, 1:18:29.640 --> 1:18:36.320 people have a people have interest in the political situation, right. 1:18:36.360 --> 1:18:39.040 But what I was telling people from day one, That's 1:18:39.080 --> 1:18:42.040 why I said, this is the Trump rally challenge. Because 1:18:42.040 --> 1:18:45.120 while everybody else is paying attention to everything else, he's 1:18:45.160 --> 1:18:47.840 coming in. There's nothing we can do about it. What's next? 1:18:48.720 --> 1:18:52.400 What's next is right? If our money was right, we 1:18:52.439 --> 1:18:54.880 ain't got to worry about picking between two people. We 1:18:54.960 --> 1:18:59.360 put people in the ourselves, right, because it's people who 1:18:59.439 --> 1:19:02.320 putting people win there. But it takes money to do that. 1:19:03.240 --> 1:19:05.599 It takes money to do that. So now that he's 1:19:05.640 --> 1:19:08.360 in office, let's get what we're supposed to get. Let's 1:19:08.400 --> 1:19:10.920 get that money, because it's gonna be a Trump rally 1:19:11.360 --> 1:19:16.000 in a lot of different markets, not just a stock market. 1:19:16.439 --> 1:19:20.360 And he's gonna make sure that the stock market get 1:19:20.439 --> 1:19:23.800 is just due because he's invested in it and he 1:19:23.960 --> 1:19:25.679 still haven't relinquished that yet. 1:19:25.800 --> 1:19:27.599 Him and his old boy and Elon. 1:19:28.760 --> 1:19:30.479 It's a whole bunch of them. It ain't just them. 1:19:30.520 --> 1:19:34.320 They all band together for him. They they're all gonna 1:19:34.439 --> 1:19:37.080 eat and we gotta eat too. It ain't nothing to 1:19:37.120 --> 1:19:40.760 be emotional about. You cannot strategize with emotions. We've been 1:19:40.760 --> 1:19:43.559 emotional long enough. It's time to get to the money. 1:19:44.240 --> 1:19:47.240 It's time to understand the more wise money. That's right, 1:19:47.400 --> 1:19:49.400 It's time to understand the money. So that's what the 1:19:49.400 --> 1:19:54.280 whole challenge is about. The first the first twenty days, 1:19:54.479 --> 1:19:57.160 twenty eight days after Trump came in, we ran a 1:19:57.240 --> 1:20:00.000 test play. We said one thousand dollars to fifty thousand 1:20:00.120 --> 1:20:04.960 dollars traded options right in thirty days. We got the 1:20:05.040 --> 1:20:09.040 fifty seven and twenty six days off one thousand dollars. 1:20:09.920 --> 1:20:13.920 So that so we were trading options. We came up 1:20:13.960 --> 1:20:16.120 with a challenge. I said, all right, I know Trump. 1:20:16.280 --> 1:20:18.320 You know he's gonna get in office, right, and when 1:20:18.320 --> 1:20:21.360 he do, no matter what president gets in, we get 1:20:21.400 --> 1:20:23.479 some type of rally. But when Trump gets in, we 1:20:23.560 --> 1:20:27.719 get an astronomical rally, right because of the sentiment, meaning 1:20:27.760 --> 1:20:29.400 the mentality. 1:20:28.960 --> 1:20:30.200 Of the people got money. 1:20:30.280 --> 1:20:33.599 He's a businessman, he does you know, and some some 1:20:33.680 --> 1:20:36.960 moves he do make is good for business. But all 1:20:37.000 --> 1:20:41.160 in all, people just automatically think that, right. So all 1:20:41.160 --> 1:20:45.000 the retail investors. There's two types of investors. Institutional investors 1:20:45.000 --> 1:20:48.840 which is banks, insurance companies, college endowments, and then you 1:20:49.000 --> 1:20:52.040 have retail investors. That's me and you, me and you 1:20:52.040 --> 1:20:55.000 could have one hundred million dollars investor. We're still retail 1:20:55.040 --> 1:20:58.240 investors unless we're managing money of some sort or we 1:20:58.320 --> 1:21:02.720 got institutional size money coming in, then we'll consider retail investors. 1:21:02.840 --> 1:21:03.040 Right. 1:21:03.520 --> 1:21:06.680 So the retail investors, they know Trump coming in, they 1:21:06.680 --> 1:21:09.080 don't have too much knowledge. They trade on news, so 1:21:09.120 --> 1:21:12.200 they're gonna jump in the market. So what happened. Tesla's 1:21:12.200 --> 1:21:15.240 stock price went up forty eight dollars in one night 1:21:15.800 --> 1:21:20.160 on Trump news. Coin Base fifty dollars in one night. 1:21:20.720 --> 1:21:25.080 Bitcoin went crazy. Micro Strategies which is a company that's 1:21:25.200 --> 1:21:29.160 just based on buying bitcoin, but they're publicly traded stock. 1:21:29.280 --> 1:21:31.599 This see and this is what we all understand about 1:21:31.640 --> 1:21:34.360 the money. There's a company that we're killing right now. 1:21:34.360 --> 1:21:36.320 I don't kill he done made some money off of it. 1:21:36.760 --> 1:21:40.360 Micro Strategy stocks go by ticket symbols. So the ticket 1:21:40.400 --> 1:21:46.600 symbol is mstr micro Strategies company based is buying bitcoin. 1:21:47.000 --> 1:21:50.040 That's it. That's their corporates, their business model, that's what 1:21:50.080 --> 1:21:50.400 they do. 1:21:51.080 --> 1:21:53.479 So they're buying it from people, buy. 1:21:53.320 --> 1:21:56.880 Whatever, whatever markets is available. That's their business model. They 1:21:56.880 --> 1:21:59.439 have billions of bitcoin and that's what they do. 1:21:59.560 --> 1:22:01.640 If you want to sell your own personal. 1:22:02.240 --> 1:22:04.400 Yeah, yeah, you can sell whatever you buy. You can 1:22:04.439 --> 1:22:07.360 sell whatever you buy. But bitcoin is tricky. You gotta 1:22:07.360 --> 1:22:10.719 have actual ledgers. Your ledger may look like this phone. 1:22:11.040 --> 1:22:14.840 You can lose your ledger, you lose your bitcoin. And 1:22:15.439 --> 1:22:17.519 I'm not saying bitcoin is a bad thing. I just 1:22:17.600 --> 1:22:20.000 haven't made that transition yet. People say, hey, saying why 1:22:20.040 --> 1:22:22.960 you don't invest in bitcoin? Well, if I got a 1:22:23.000 --> 1:22:25.679 system that's allowed me to take thirty forty thousand dollars 1:22:25.720 --> 1:22:27.799 a week. Where do I need to go chase bitcoin? 1:22:28.280 --> 1:22:32.680 It's about finding your things. People. Problem is they want 1:22:32.720 --> 1:22:34.960 to hear about this, hear about that, and hear about this. 1:22:35.040 --> 1:22:37.639 I just seen one guy's advertise me. He was like, Yeah, 1:22:37.680 --> 1:22:39.400 you get the money from the options and you put 1:22:39.439 --> 1:22:42.040 them over here in insurance and you do this over there. Yo. 1:22:42.280 --> 1:22:46.160 Chill bro, chill bro. Yeah, they do need insurance, but 1:22:46.200 --> 1:22:49.280 don't make them hustle so much. Let them find one 1:22:49.320 --> 1:22:51.479 thing that makes the money, get the money off that. 1:22:51.600 --> 1:22:54.760 Then you funnel other small bits of money into those streams, bro, 1:22:54.920 --> 1:22:58.720 But don't make it so complicated. Yeah, people here, if 1:22:59.040 --> 1:23:01.479 you already made a hundred thousand a week in the 1:23:01.479 --> 1:23:04.559 stock market, right, what do you need to go try 1:23:04.680 --> 1:23:05.800 your hand with bitcoin for? 1:23:06.439 --> 1:23:07.640 Because you can lose. 1:23:12.080 --> 1:23:14.439 Every basketball player And if somebody tell you to go 1:23:14.520 --> 1:23:15.880 invest in football, you like, for what. 1:23:16.040 --> 1:23:18.400 I know all about basketball. I know all the games. 1:23:18.439 --> 1:23:21.760 I know that, I know what Lebron gonna score, I 1:23:21.800 --> 1:23:23.799 know when he ain't playing, I know the spread. 1:23:23.840 --> 1:23:26.960 I know everything about this. So I'm invest my money in. 1:23:26.960 --> 1:23:30.120 What I know exactly, because it's about setting yourself up. See, 1:23:30.160 --> 1:23:32.240 it's about whatever game you want to play. Right, if 1:23:32.240 --> 1:23:34.000 you want to play the game. I got a career, 1:23:34.360 --> 1:23:37.200 I have things going on. I'm a professional, I do this, 1:23:37.320 --> 1:23:40.840 I'm an entertainer. Then you want to find things where 1:23:40.880 --> 1:23:42.680 you can invest in them and they will pay you 1:23:42.760 --> 1:23:44.920 short term like that. You don't got to worry about it. 1:23:45.000 --> 1:23:48.000 You got you know, you got cover call strategies, which 1:23:48.080 --> 1:23:51.120 is pretty much if you own one hundred shares of stock, right, 1:23:51.439 --> 1:23:54.320 I could sell you an option now, my son, right, 1:23:54.760 --> 1:23:57.679 and I sell you a weekly option, and when it expire, 1:23:57.720 --> 1:23:59.599 I keep the money that you pay for your option, 1:24:00.760 --> 1:24:03.320 just like we lost the options there. Yeah, we lost 1:24:03.320 --> 1:24:06.560 a couple options. But yeah, I'll let him tell y'all 1:24:07.000 --> 1:24:10.599 he's up, he's up. But yeah, we don't. You lose. 1:24:10.960 --> 1:24:13.439 Don't let nobody tell you you don't lose. It's about 1:24:13.520 --> 1:24:14.280 managing your wrist. 1:24:14.360 --> 1:24:15.760 You got to win more than you lose. 1:24:16.840 --> 1:24:20.080 Yeah, So I may lose three trades and lose let's 1:24:20.120 --> 1:24:23.439 just say, for instance, three thousand dollars, right, But then 1:24:23.479 --> 1:24:25.920 I may put up one thousand dollars and win a 1:24:25.960 --> 1:24:28.760 trade for twelve thousand dollars. So on my down, did 1:24:28.800 --> 1:24:29.240 I lose? 1:24:29.360 --> 1:24:29.559 No? 1:24:29.960 --> 1:24:34.360 So it's not about winning every trade. It's about winning 1:24:34.360 --> 1:24:37.040 at the right time and protecting the capitol once you 1:24:37.120 --> 1:24:39.920 do win. So now you win the twelve thousand, and 1:24:39.960 --> 1:24:41.640 you know that's all you got. Now you put that 1:24:41.680 --> 1:24:45.280 twelve thousand on one trade the next time, God bless you. 1:24:45.280 --> 1:24:47.320 You know you're trying to build Rome in one day, 1:24:48.160 --> 1:24:50.599 you know, and that's not what you do. You lay 1:24:50.680 --> 1:24:53.880 the foundation. So if you know you got a system 1:24:54.000 --> 1:24:56.559 that you make ten thousand dollars a week, start from 1:24:56.560 --> 1:24:59.400 that foundation. You see what I'm saying. And then what 1:24:59.439 --> 1:25:02.200 you can do is if myan make a trade, if 1:25:02.240 --> 1:25:04.920 we take an option, right, the option has a price, 1:25:05.680 --> 1:25:09.439 so pretty much this is what options are. Options allow 1:25:09.600 --> 1:25:14.320 people to control one hundred shares of a particular stock 1:25:14.400 --> 1:25:17.799 for a cheaper price. So let's just say JP Morgan's 1:25:17.840 --> 1:25:20.600 trading that two hundred dollars a share. You're gonna have 1:25:20.600 --> 1:25:23.839 to pay twenty thousand dollars four hundred shares a JP Morgan. 1:25:24.200 --> 1:25:28.360 You could control an option contract which allows you exposure 1:25:28.400 --> 1:25:32.040 to one hundred shares of JP Morgan for probably one 1:25:32.080 --> 1:25:35.200 thousand dollars. But here's the catch. You didn't buy it 1:25:35.240 --> 1:25:37.400 out right, so you can't hold on to it forever. 1:25:37.760 --> 1:25:41.920 So options have expirations, so you have a certain amount 1:25:41.920 --> 1:25:44.840 of time. So now let's say JP Morgan's trading at 1:25:44.840 --> 1:25:48.760 two hundred dollars per share, and you say, okay, I 1:25:48.800 --> 1:25:52.400 think JP Morgan's going to two twenty, So you will 1:25:52.439 --> 1:25:56.240 buy a two to twenty call option on JP Morgan 1:25:56.600 --> 1:26:00.360 with an expiration of let's say thirty days. They give 1:26:00.360 --> 1:26:02.519 you a list of expirations, you can't make up your 1:26:02.520 --> 1:26:06.000 own date, and you pick from those expirations. It's a 1:26:06.040 --> 1:26:09.840 strategy to it. Every expiration means something different, every strike 1:26:09.920 --> 1:26:12.760 price means something different. If you're gonna trade this game, 1:26:12.840 --> 1:26:16.080 you have to know how to gauge where price is going, 1:26:16.439 --> 1:26:18.760 meaning where that stock price is gonna be. 1:26:19.120 --> 1:26:21.000 Now, if in the middle of all of this. 1:26:22.560 --> 1:26:26.040 Chase fires, you know, or you know, like just to 1:26:26.080 --> 1:26:30.240 show I saw that McDonald's this is happening, like breaking 1:26:30.320 --> 1:26:37.559 in this moment, McDonald's has decided to dismantle their diversity division. 1:26:37.760 --> 1:26:39.800 So now you got all these people that's mad as 1:26:39.840 --> 1:26:42.400 hell about it. So let's say that really means something 1:26:42.439 --> 1:26:46.000 in the world. It will temp is about exactly because 1:26:46.040 --> 1:26:49.240 you know whatever, So then it might go down. So 1:26:49.280 --> 1:26:51.800 then what what do you do if you're holding the 1:26:51.840 --> 1:26:54.040 shares already and now they have a problem. 1:26:54.840 --> 1:26:58.720 Well, if you're holding the shares already, let me just 1:26:58.800 --> 1:27:01.920 clear up something. Nothing happens like that in the market. 1:27:02.200 --> 1:27:06.080 You know, people think markets, they think crash, Oh my god, 1:27:06.520 --> 1:27:11.400 everything down to our recessions and depressions are strategized. They're 1:27:11.520 --> 1:27:16.479 induced and they happen because people cause them. So when 1:27:16.479 --> 1:27:19.120 markets go down, understand what we're talking about. We're talking 1:27:19.160 --> 1:27:22.000 about a stock market. There's two actions in the market, 1:27:22.080 --> 1:27:25.240 buy and sell. If those two actions can be completed, 1:27:25.320 --> 1:27:28.040 it's not a market. So in order for me to 1:27:28.080 --> 1:27:30.600 buy something, it has to get cheap enough for me 1:27:30.680 --> 1:27:33.679 to buy it. So what has to happen. People sell 1:27:34.000 --> 1:27:37.000 to make things cheaper. Because the more you sell something, 1:27:37.160 --> 1:27:39.800 the more that product goes back to the market as 1:27:39.840 --> 1:27:43.439 if nobody wants it. So more people sell, more people sell, 1:27:43.520 --> 1:27:46.639 what's happened, and the price is getting cheaper. So markets 1:27:46.680 --> 1:27:50.840 have contingencies in place. They have parameters in place for where, 1:27:51.000 --> 1:27:53.719 let's just say, when they may say, oh, Warren Buffett 1:27:53.720 --> 1:27:57.600 just sold this apple position that happened ninety days ago, 1:27:58.120 --> 1:28:01.560 you know, or thirty days ago, or it's happening incrementally 1:28:01.640 --> 1:28:04.360 because the way the market's designed. Warren Buffer can't wake 1:28:04.439 --> 1:28:08.760 up today without filling out paper and getting the right 1:28:09.040 --> 1:28:14.719 proper going through the proper steps to sell ten billion 1:28:14.800 --> 1:28:18.760 dollars worth of Apple. It can't happen in one day. 1:28:18.840 --> 1:28:22.559 So there's things put in place so that you have 1:28:22.680 --> 1:28:27.679 companies that have suffered news and go down astronomically fifty 1:28:27.760 --> 1:28:30.240 percent in one day, sixty percent in one day. But 1:28:30.240 --> 1:28:33.160 it's telegraph like you said, you'll see that coming. It's 1:28:33.200 --> 1:28:36.120 not like you're gonna wake up and your stock that 1:28:36.160 --> 1:28:39.120 you've been owning, your whatever stock it is is going 1:28:39.200 --> 1:28:41.599 to just be down sixty percent, and you didn't see 1:28:41.600 --> 1:28:43.880 that coming. So I know a lot of people think 1:28:43.920 --> 1:28:44.360 that's how it. 1:28:44.720 --> 1:28:47.639 Yeah, because that's why older people are like, I don't 1:28:47.680 --> 1:28:48.280 mess with that. 1:28:48.479 --> 1:28:50.479 But they do mess with it because they're four one 1:28:50.560 --> 1:28:51.920 ks and four three b's is. 1:28:51.880 --> 1:28:53.719 Full of stocks and they have no idea. 1:28:53.840 --> 1:28:55.680 And they have no idea. I know for sure. I 1:28:56.080 --> 1:28:58.360 had a family member who said, Yo, my father got 1:28:58.720 --> 1:29:02.439 one point two million in his retirement fun and he 1:29:02.479 --> 1:29:04.920 didn't even know it. Can you explain to him what 1:29:04.960 --> 1:29:07.720 it is? Yeah? I know what it is. He had 1:29:07.720 --> 1:29:11.600 a stock and that stock price was very like this 1:29:11.760 --> 1:29:12.519 thirty years ago. 1:29:12.880 --> 1:29:15.080 Now it's like this, but can how does he get 1:29:15.120 --> 1:29:16.720 some of the one point three million dollars? 1:29:16.760 --> 1:29:18.000 Oh, he gets all of that, that's his. 1:29:18.880 --> 1:29:20.360 But could he get it now? 1:29:20.439 --> 1:29:23.120 Yeah, that's once you retire. That once you resire, Yeah, 1:29:23.160 --> 1:29:25.599 that goes over into your retirement accouncil. What they'll do 1:29:25.720 --> 1:29:28.160 is you probably roll it over into an investment account. 1:29:28.880 --> 1:29:32.439 Roll over means you roll it over to another account, 1:29:32.479 --> 1:29:36.360 so you can avoid fees, right, and penalties if there's 1:29:36.400 --> 1:29:39.719 some there, or you know, for some even taxes because 1:29:39.960 --> 1:29:42.960 you might retire, but you might not want to just 1:29:43.040 --> 1:29:46.840 have the money. You might want to keep the stock right, right. 1:29:47.080 --> 1:29:51.439 So that's a lot of different things that go into it. 1:29:51.560 --> 1:29:54.679 And so would you say to someone who's listening, because 1:29:54.680 --> 1:29:57.360 you know, people think everything is easy. 1:29:56.960 --> 1:29:58.760 I heard that, or at least we hope it is. 1:29:58.880 --> 1:29:59.840 You know, I could do that. 1:30:00.320 --> 1:30:02.400 Would you say that there's a lot of learning that 1:30:02.479 --> 1:30:05.160 goes into it, or can somebody just start and learn 1:30:05.280 --> 1:30:05.960 as they go along? 1:30:06.000 --> 1:30:08.200 I would say learn from somebody to know what they're doing, 1:30:08.640 --> 1:30:10.960 because then they can give you their experiences so you 1:30:11.000 --> 1:30:14.759 can avoid the pitfalls. Right, some things you're just gonna 1:30:14.840 --> 1:30:18.760 go through right. Investing in trading will tell you who 1:30:18.760 --> 1:30:22.040 you are right. It will tell you if you're greedy. 1:30:22.040 --> 1:30:24.000 It will tell you if you lack discipline. It will 1:30:24.000 --> 1:30:27.280 tell you if you impatient. It will tell you. And 1:30:27.400 --> 1:30:32.680 I have lost money significance amount of money. You understand, 1:30:33.760 --> 1:30:37.360 and I you know you talk about you know one 1:30:37.360 --> 1:30:39.599 of my success stories that you talk about. You don't 1:30:39.640 --> 1:30:42.040 want to talk about the stock. But I think you 1:30:42.080 --> 1:30:44.920 should reverse that, and I think you should be talking 1:30:44.920 --> 1:30:47.080 about it. Why should he be the only one eating 1:30:47.080 --> 1:30:47.479 off of it? 1:30:47.680 --> 1:30:50.639 Oh, I'm not saying. I'm not saying that people shouldn't 1:30:50.640 --> 1:30:51.280 do business. 1:30:51.400 --> 1:30:53.040 But it's just. 1:30:53.000 --> 1:30:56.920 Certain up here, and it's patronized. No, I know you're 1:30:56.920 --> 1:30:58.720 gonna never get up here and big them up. 1:30:58.840 --> 1:31:00.000 Yeah, certain things. 1:31:00.200 --> 1:31:05.480 Yeah, certain certain people who don't understand exactly won't understand 1:31:05.920 --> 1:31:08.240 what I'm saying, Like, Oh, they don't changed up. 1:31:08.280 --> 1:31:11.719 They don't, they ain't change up. They just they always 1:31:11.800 --> 1:31:14.519 was on the money. Don't get it twisted. They know 1:31:14.840 --> 1:31:17.200 you heard what they said. You know it has to 1:31:17.240 --> 1:31:19.479 be a follow up. It's got you know, you pull 1:31:19.520 --> 1:31:21.360 a person off the corner where you're gonna send them 1:31:21.360 --> 1:31:24.799 to McDonald's. That's back on the corner. That is the corner. 1:31:25.200 --> 1:31:29.680 That's the corner for somebody else, it is it is, 1:31:30.439 --> 1:31:33.280 it's the corner. It's the corner. Because like how many 1:31:33.320 --> 1:31:35.599 people out of ten people are gonna say, you know what, 1:31:35.680 --> 1:31:37.880 I'm gonna put it down to McDonald's and I'm gonna 1:31:37.880 --> 1:31:40.559 own one one day, It's only gonna be one of. 1:31:40.520 --> 1:31:42.880 Them gonna wake up and see. 1:31:43.280 --> 1:31:46.599 And they know that. You know people, you're gonna quit 1:31:46.640 --> 1:31:49.000 the first. So the whole thing is is this, Yes, 1:31:49.080 --> 1:31:51.400 it does take studying, but I would say learn from 1:31:51.400 --> 1:31:55.040 somebody that has a good foundation. Make sure that people 1:31:55.200 --> 1:31:58.839 showing you trades, because we suffer now with social media, 1:31:58.880 --> 1:32:01.840 with being able to have access to everybody at one time, 1:32:01.880 --> 1:32:03.120 it didn't used to be like that. 1:32:03.160 --> 1:32:05.280 That's the same thing when I work, people think that 1:32:05.320 --> 1:32:07.320 they could do what we do exactly. 1:32:07.400 --> 1:32:10.880 So now think about it, right, So now you have 1:32:11.160 --> 1:32:14.280 these weirdos that you would never have met in your life. 1:32:14.720 --> 1:32:17.720 They're all in one place to see you. Now. I 1:32:17.800 --> 1:32:22.240 put a post up recently about bank of what was it, 1:32:22.280 --> 1:32:25.800 TD Bank, and I'm trying to show people how you 1:32:25.840 --> 1:32:30.040 know who the real crooks are, Like they're they're making 1:32:30.080 --> 1:32:32.680 money off us in so many different ways. So one 1:32:32.720 --> 1:32:38.240 guy said, man, you sound like you the police. I said, brother, 1:32:39.040 --> 1:32:41.879 I can't possibly be the police because I beat the police. 1:32:42.080 --> 1:32:44.880 I dragged the police in the courtroom, I said, the 1:32:44.920 --> 1:32:48.040 federal police. To be exact. You know, I gave all 1:32:48.160 --> 1:32:51.680 mind back. I said, when brothers like you with that mentality, 1:32:52.080 --> 1:32:56.120 y'all still there. Unfortunately, I said, because you think like that, 1:32:56.640 --> 1:33:00.679 you're not even seeing a bigger picture. I said, and 1:33:00.800 --> 1:33:04.320 I'm gonna disregard your disrespect. That's it, because you need help. 1:33:04.479 --> 1:33:05.320 We had to learn that. 1:33:05.840 --> 1:33:09.440 It wasn't always like man, you call me police, man, police. 1:33:09.560 --> 1:33:13.040 Was that that's somebody gets somebody to kill you, jail, 1:33:13.120 --> 1:33:14.720 somebody you get immediately. 1:33:14.800 --> 1:33:17.240 Oh man, the men you call somebody police. 1:33:16.920 --> 1:33:19.000 And if they really is police, you better be ready 1:33:19.000 --> 1:33:22.479 to go because them the ones that hurt you, because 1:33:22.479 --> 1:33:25.599 they're gonna try to pretend they go, they go, they go. 1:33:25.960 --> 1:33:28.120 You know, they men just like everybody else. They just 1:33:28.200 --> 1:33:31.160 you know, see jay Ree was out there killing people, 1:33:31.280 --> 1:33:33.920 that's right, and he was the biggest police. That's right. 1:33:34.200 --> 1:33:35.720 I cannot we can sit here. 1:33:35.920 --> 1:33:39.599 Oh damn, listen, it's a pleasure. 1:33:39.640 --> 1:33:41.679 It was a long time coming, you know, we're gonna 1:33:41.800 --> 1:33:44.080 we're gonna bring you up again after after we make 1:33:44.160 --> 1:33:45.760 our first million, we're gonna bring up here. 1:33:45.800 --> 1:33:46.720 We can talk about that. 1:33:47.080 --> 1:33:48.080 We're gonna walk them through it. 1:33:49.520 --> 1:33:52.280 Everybody got their call and he can do it. 1:33:52.560 --> 1:33:55.080 Told I'm gonna do it. Let me, I'm gonna teach. 1:33:54.880 --> 1:33:57.920 You, and said, and I said, you know. 1:33:58.080 --> 1:34:00.960 Just give her, give me one about sixty day. I 1:34:01.000 --> 1:34:04.000 told her. But from a long term standpoint, it's nothing 1:34:04.000 --> 1:34:06.599 to learn what we're doing. You have to learn. From 1:34:06.600 --> 1:34:09.080 a long term standpoint. What you need to know is 1:34:09.360 --> 1:34:14.960 your You need to use your deepest logic. Seriously, Yeah, seriously. 1:34:15.120 --> 1:34:18.839 If you're watching the news and they say, oh, Visa 1:34:19.040 --> 1:34:24.160 just felled eighty dollars because their system got hacked, go 1:34:24.200 --> 1:34:27.320 buy Visa. Is Visa going anywhere? 1:34:27.479 --> 1:34:29.320 No, they're gonna have a come back. 1:34:29.960 --> 1:34:32.840 You're gonna go swipe Visa the minute the newsreel is over. Right, 1:34:34.439 --> 1:34:37.400 as you get you tell people that, hey, what do 1:34:37.400 --> 1:34:41.120 you think about Facebook? And Facebook is going down? I said, well, 1:34:41.200 --> 1:34:44.120 y'all better get in Facebook. This was five hundred dollars ago, 1:34:44.240 --> 1:34:47.120 by the way, I said, y'all better get in Facebook. Facebook. 1:34:47.200 --> 1:34:49.360 Y'all listen to the news if you want to. I said, 1:34:49.360 --> 1:34:54.960 you watch the news segment about Facebook on Facebook, So 1:34:55.080 --> 1:34:58.679 why what are you talking about? Hold your Facebook? Six 1:34:58.720 --> 1:35:02.400 months later, Facebook five hundred dollars richer. You see what 1:35:02.439 --> 1:35:06.080 I'm saying. So it's about patience. It's about you just 1:35:06.240 --> 1:35:08.960 knowing that this is where the money's going. And if 1:35:09.000 --> 1:35:11.360 you know that, then you're gonna take your money out 1:35:11.360 --> 1:35:13.719 of that bank who's doing the same thing I'm telling 1:35:13.760 --> 1:35:18.439 you to do and giving zero points zero percent, not 1:35:18.520 --> 1:35:21.680 even a four percent back because that's the national and 1:35:21.720 --> 1:35:25.960 federal rate. They're gonna give you that bare minimum because 1:35:26.000 --> 1:35:28.479 he's hiking rates up and they can't make money anyway 1:35:28.600 --> 1:35:31.040 like that. You see what I'm saying, Because they make 1:35:31.080 --> 1:35:34.960 their money between what they take in, what they borrow, 1:35:35.000 --> 1:35:38.240 and what they lend. They get money in between the spread. 1:35:38.320 --> 1:35:40.639 So if they if they if they if they lean 1:35:40.800 --> 1:35:43.679 one dollar and they ball too, they make one wow. 1:35:44.120 --> 1:35:46.599 So with the interest rates up, they're not making no money. 1:35:47.439 --> 1:35:52.639 So it's just about understanding the system. It's much easier 1:35:52.680 --> 1:35:54.360 to get a loan from a bank than it is 1:35:54.400 --> 1:35:57.799 to rob. You only need a fully loaded credit score, that's. 1:35:57.600 --> 1:36:00.000 It, instead of a fully loaded gun. 1:36:00.120 --> 1:36:00.519 That's it. 1:36:01.200 --> 1:36:03.519 That's the title of the episode, How. 1:36:03.520 --> 1:36:07.120 You go send you No Wise Money, Drew, make sure 1:36:07.160 --> 1:36:08.280 tell them where to find you at. 1:36:08.560 --> 1:36:11.040 Oh, you can find me at Wise Money Academy on 1:36:11.160 --> 1:36:15.479 Instagram one word Wise Money Academy. W I S E 1:36:15.600 --> 1:36:19.439 A C A D E M. Why I think I 1:36:19.520 --> 1:36:24.040 spelt it right? Also Real Money Experience. We also got 1:36:24.040 --> 1:36:27.760 the Trump Rally challenge going on right now. By the 1:36:27.760 --> 1:36:30.439 time they hear this, I guess it'll still be going on. 1:36:30.600 --> 1:36:38.120 You know. Again, again, we ain't supporting Trump. We ain't 1:36:38.120 --> 1:36:42.200 support nobody but ourselves. But we do know how to 1:36:42.920 --> 1:36:46.280 engrave ourselves in that process so that we can have 1:36:46.439 --> 1:36:49.560 our way too. That's what it's about, you know. So 1:36:51.520 --> 1:36:53.680 he's gonna be that for four years, and what we 1:36:53.760 --> 1:36:56.680 gotta do is capitalize on it. Yeah, maybe maybe, you. 1:36:56.640 --> 1:36:57.599 Know, might do twelve. 1:36:58.520 --> 1:36:59.479 I don't know about that. 1:37:00.080 --> 1:37:01.800 He might be permanent now I. 1:37:01.800 --> 1:37:04.400 Don't know about that either. I think it might be 1:37:04.439 --> 1:37:05.960 on a shorter end than you think. 1:37:06.479 --> 1:37:09.639 Well, here's my predictions before I go. In ten years, 1:37:09.640 --> 1:37:12.559 it's gonna be two companies, Amazon and Tesla. Which one 1:37:12.600 --> 1:37:16.400 you want? President Trump is going to remain President Trump. 1:37:16.400 --> 1:37:18.400 It's not even gonna be called president no more. He's 1:37:18.400 --> 1:37:23.160 gonna be a dictator and that's pretty much it. Oh 1:37:23.439 --> 1:37:28.000 Elon Musks gonna be a trillionaire too, and he's probably 1:37:28.040 --> 1:37:30.040 gonna try to force the brain chips on the show. 1:37:30.920 --> 1:37:34.519 So I'm with her, I'm with the Queen. Yes, I 1:37:34.520 --> 1:37:38.680 don't support him as a man. I don't support his quest, 1:37:38.920 --> 1:37:42.800 but we have to use his process to get our 1:37:42.880 --> 1:37:46.280 money right so we can design our own process. And 1:37:46.320 --> 1:37:49.719 that's been the goal since day one. Trump Rally Challenge 1:37:49.760 --> 1:37:52.840 is going on Trump Rally Challenge dot com. Sign up 1:37:54.080 --> 1:37:57.240 cheap way to get to a big bag. I really 1:37:57.280 --> 1:37:57.960 do what I say. 1:37:58.000 --> 1:37:58.240 I do. 1:37:58.320 --> 1:38:01.519 You heard my son definitely wouldn't bring me up here 1:38:01.560 --> 1:38:06.240 unless my song stamp me first and man hearing hearing 1:38:06.280 --> 1:38:09.639 your voice on Young j Z album that was early 1:38:09.720 --> 1:38:14.320 in me coming home. I used that. I used that song. Listen. 1:38:15.200 --> 1:38:18.200 I got up, did my little first seminars man five people. 1:38:18.240 --> 1:38:20.760 I was only teaching five people with the library. I 1:38:20.840 --> 1:38:21.880 listened to that first. 1:38:22.040 --> 1:38:22.360 Wow. 1:38:23.200 --> 1:38:25.680 I am in charge, but he's in charge. 1:38:25.439 --> 1:38:26.439 Too, no doubt. 1:38:27.920 --> 1:38:28.719 We run the show. 1:38:30.200 --> 1:38:32.040 Thank you, thank you, thank you all for having me. 1:38:32.240 --> 1:38:35.519 Santino Drew, that's right, cool, thank you. 1:38:38.240 --> 1:38:42.680 I'll learn one day you will. I just you know, 1:38:42.800 --> 1:38:45.000 like why y'all just can't do it. 1:38:44.960 --> 1:38:50.040 For me, because because I lose my money exactly. 1:38:50.200 --> 1:38:52.720 So we want you to understand everything that got going 1:38:52.760 --> 1:38:55.280 on with your money. So when you listen, But okay, 1:38:55.320 --> 1:38:58.639 that's all right, so you feel comfortable and confident. 1:38:58.840 --> 1:39:00.800 I just want to wake up one day and my 1:39:00.920 --> 1:39:03.439 bank account has the money in it that I need. 1:39:03.600 --> 1:39:04.519 Yeah, that's the press. 1:39:04.560 --> 1:39:06.960 That's all I want. I don't want to have to 1:39:07.120 --> 1:39:08.320 work for everything. 1:39:08.400 --> 1:39:11.080 But this ain't really working. This is what you're already. 1:39:11.080 --> 1:39:13.280 You'll be telling me all day. Can't talk right now. 1:39:13.479 --> 1:39:14.720 I'm doing no because. 1:39:14.560 --> 1:39:17.200 I'm doing options. He what he's telling you to do 1:39:17.280 --> 1:39:18.520 is just long term investments. 1:39:18.560 --> 1:39:18.640 Me. 1:39:18.760 --> 1:39:20.800 I'm taking a little bit of I'm taking a couple 1:39:20.840 --> 1:39:23.000 of thousand, I'm saying, and I need that I need, 1:39:23.080 --> 1:39:25.080 but I'm flipping it. Once I flip it, then I 1:39:25.080 --> 1:39:27.280 can teach you how to flip flip flip. But right now, 1:39:27.400 --> 1:39:29.519 you take about a lump sum and you put it 1:39:29.560 --> 1:39:32.080 into something that's big, and one day you wake up 1:39:32.360 --> 1:39:34.760 and it be done roads five hundred percent. That's what 1:39:34.800 --> 1:39:37.280 happened with bitcoin. Like people invested in the money and 1:39:37.320 --> 1:39:39.880 next to you know, the one day it was up 1:39:39.920 --> 1:39:43.280 five hundred dollars, So every dollar you had, you multiply 1:39:43.439 --> 1:39:44.559 times five hundred dollars. 1:39:44.600 --> 1:39:47.679 Well, that's what I'm saying. Okay, okay, So that's that's. 1:39:47.560 --> 1:39:48.160 The key to it. 1:39:48.240 --> 1:39:51.639 So you just got to know that whatever you invest 1:39:51.680 --> 1:39:52.800 in is going to go up. 1:39:53.320 --> 1:39:56.120 That's it. I'm telling you. It's a process, but it's 1:39:56.120 --> 1:39:56.559 worth it. 1:39:57.240 --> 1:40:00.559 I all listen, the brothers obviously very knowledge about and 1:40:00.680 --> 1:40:04.800 passionate about what he does. I you know, I understand 1:40:04.800 --> 1:40:08.519 his position on the Trump thing. You know, because while 1:40:08.600 --> 1:40:12.160 Donald Trump is president, we can't die. He go crawl 1:40:12.240 --> 1:40:14.639 up in the corner. Life still has to go on. 1:40:15.040 --> 1:40:18.519 But I still ain't promoting no T words on this. 1:40:18.760 --> 1:40:20.320 You know, I get it, and I'm not mad at you. 1:40:20.479 --> 1:40:23.760 But the reality is the way we realize is that 1:40:23.800 --> 1:40:26.200 these people with the T words is making millions of 1:40:26.240 --> 1:40:28.840 dollars and bends and dollars of our people. These people 1:40:28.840 --> 1:40:33.479 are the T word is damn a trillionaire. So it's 1:40:33.560 --> 1:40:35.799 like if we if we don't when we're talking. 1:40:35.560 --> 1:40:35.880 About the. 1:40:38.000 --> 1:40:38.600 Word with the. 1:40:43.600 --> 1:40:48.519 Hilarious joke, but the. 1:40:58.200 --> 1:41:02.280 Gonna die this clip right here, the event the. 1:41:02.280 --> 1:41:08.120 Teeth that's so funny. 1:41:08.120 --> 1:41:09.200 It's funny. Yeah. 1:41:09.240 --> 1:41:11.760 So what the bottom line is that, you know, we 1:41:11.800 --> 1:41:14.839 live in America, capitalist society and people gonna make money, 1:41:15.000 --> 1:41:18.200 and what Santino has been saying, it's like, why won't 1:41:18.240 --> 1:41:20.519 why don't we make money to be able to fund 1:41:20.560 --> 1:41:22.120 our people properly and do the things. 1:41:22.000 --> 1:41:22.559 We need to do. 1:41:22.600 --> 1:41:27.120 So I'm so happy you make very much in gont 1:41:27.160 --> 1:41:28.360 get it, don't get it? 1:41:28.439 --> 1:41:29.840 Very intentional get it? 1:41:30.080 --> 1:41:31.000 Thank you very much. 1:41:31.160 --> 1:41:33.920 Yes, yes, Now before I get into my I don't 1:41:33.960 --> 1:41:37.639 get it, I want to promote my new book. Shout 1:41:37.640 --> 1:41:42.040 out to my publisher McBride McBride Publishing, And the new 1:41:42.080 --> 1:41:45.880 book is called Echoes in the Streets and it's a 1:41:45.960 --> 1:41:50.160 children's book. This is my third one and it debuted 1:41:50.240 --> 1:41:54.240 number one on Amazon last week. So we want to 1:41:54.240 --> 1:41:56.719 say thank you because it's our third book that has debut. 1:41:56.840 --> 1:41:58.639 Like we've been doing really good with children's book. 1:41:58.960 --> 1:42:00.000 We're doing good in the children. 1:42:00.360 --> 1:42:02.800 We really are. You know, my book, my book is 1:42:02.800 --> 1:42:03.360 gonna be crazy. 1:42:03.400 --> 1:42:08.400 But these children's books, it's a passion for them, you know, 1:42:08.560 --> 1:42:10.960 for me, like I have a passion for these children's books. 1:42:11.160 --> 1:42:14.799 You know, I didn't really I always wanted to teach, 1:42:15.479 --> 1:42:17.839 but these books are like my way of teaching. 1:42:18.479 --> 1:42:18.680 You know. 1:42:18.960 --> 1:42:21.120 In this book right here is dear to my heart 1:42:21.200 --> 1:42:23.600 because of the work we do a boycott Black Murder. 1:42:23.800 --> 1:42:26.719 You know, Echoes in the Streets is about gun violence 1:42:26.760 --> 1:42:29.439 and how the community addresses gun violence. And it shows 1:42:29.479 --> 1:42:32.760 how we can't address gun violence to youth, you know, 1:42:32.880 --> 1:42:36.600 community leaders, you know, educators, How do we combat it 1:42:36.640 --> 1:42:40.439 and how do we unify unify as a team to 1:42:40.560 --> 1:42:43.679 combat gun violence. And it's different stories and we're gonna 1:42:43.680 --> 1:42:46.439 be doing a series of them about different stories that 1:42:46.560 --> 1:42:51.160 are realistic from different communities, different states, because you know, 1:42:51.280 --> 1:42:56.840 gun violence is all over this nation and each you know, 1:42:56.960 --> 1:43:00.599 each state has a different story in a way that 1:43:00.600 --> 1:43:04.760 gun violence happens in the states that appeals and touches 1:43:04.800 --> 1:43:07.280 the individuals in that state to where they can identify it. 1:43:07.520 --> 1:43:09.280 So that's what we want to do and we feel 1:43:09.280 --> 1:43:13.879 like it's a real dope strategy to combat gun violence. 1:43:13.920 --> 1:43:17.519 So shout out to McBride and McBride Publishing for this book. 1:43:17.880 --> 1:43:20.799 It is it is probably it's one of my favorites. 1:43:20.880 --> 1:43:22.559 I mean, all of them are my favorite, but it's 1:43:22.600 --> 1:43:25.519 one of my favorites because I understand how important this 1:43:25.560 --> 1:43:26.040 book is. 1:43:26.320 --> 1:43:27.559 So we're going to be doing our tour. 1:43:27.680 --> 1:43:30.479 Like I said, it's debut number one on Amazon the 1:43:30.520 --> 1:43:32.479 first week, and I'm just I'm. 1:43:32.320 --> 1:43:32.880 Proud of it. 1:43:32.920 --> 1:43:35.840 Echoes from the streets, echoes in the streets, that goes 1:43:35.920 --> 1:43:37.280 in the streets, that goes. 1:43:37.080 --> 1:43:37.599 In the streets. 1:43:37.680 --> 1:43:38.880 Yeah, I'm proud of you too. 1:43:39.960 --> 1:43:41.719 So you ain't the only one out here doing books 1:43:41.760 --> 1:43:44.320 and stuff. You know, you got your book coming out. 1:43:44.479 --> 1:43:50.880 Books graphics are great, Yes for the book, And I 1:43:50.920 --> 1:43:54.479 see the work that you guys put in. McBride is 1:43:54.520 --> 1:43:57.800 a very very intentional individual. I see some of the 1:43:57.800 --> 1:44:00.280 other projects he's putting now, he's really killing a game, 1:44:00.439 --> 1:44:01.960 especially in the Yeah. 1:44:02.040 --> 1:44:05.519 Listen to me. He's the truth. 1:44:05.560 --> 1:44:09.600 He is the truth, and he's he's unpassionate, he's intentional, 1:44:10.280 --> 1:44:14.000 and he pushes me like, you know, we need a 1:44:14.040 --> 1:44:14.439 new book. 1:44:14.680 --> 1:44:15.800 Let's go, let's go, let's go. 1:44:15.880 --> 1:44:18.280 And you know, he is good that you have somebody 1:44:18.280 --> 1:44:21.000 that motivates you like that, you know, and and it's 1:44:21.040 --> 1:44:22.920 willing to do the work. He just wants you to 1:44:22.960 --> 1:44:24.880 do all the work. As soon as you said you 1:44:24.960 --> 1:44:25.960 want a book, he come out. 1:44:26.120 --> 1:44:27.600 You know, he go to the artwork for it. 1:44:27.640 --> 1:44:29.680 You ready and I be okay, now I got Now, 1:44:29.680 --> 1:44:33.320 I gotta get it. 1:44:35.160 --> 1:44:35.800 Execution. 1:44:36.320 --> 1:44:38.679 You need somebody else to go ahead and bring. 1:44:39.040 --> 1:44:41.680 Yeah, I'm one of us gonna bring this stuff, but 1:44:41.680 --> 1:44:44.680 we're gonna always be intentional about doing the work. So 1:44:45.200 --> 1:44:47.759 make sure that you go out get that book on Amazon, 1:44:47.840 --> 1:44:48.839 Echoes in the Streets. 1:44:49.120 --> 1:44:51.519 It's about gun violence in the community, and it's a really. 1:44:51.439 --> 1:44:54.719 Dope book, and it's for children from probably about age 1:44:54.760 --> 1:44:56.880 three up, and it's it's pretty much like a family. 1:44:56.880 --> 1:44:59.200 But most of my books, even though they're children's books, 1:44:59.520 --> 1:45:00.680 the family, I've seen a. 1:45:00.680 --> 1:45:03.360 Lot of people purchase your book for the whole families. 1:45:03.439 --> 1:45:05.080 And when you sit there and read it, it's things 1:45:05.080 --> 1:45:08.280 that you learn, it's things that you enjoy, you identify with. 1:45:08.439 --> 1:45:10.240 So make sure you go get that book. 1:45:10.479 --> 1:45:10.680 You know. 1:45:10.760 --> 1:45:13.640 One of the things we have to figure out is 1:45:13.720 --> 1:45:18.680 how we can not use Amazon for stuff. 1:45:18.960 --> 1:45:21.680 Because it's like, on one hand, we'll be fighting. 1:45:21.439 --> 1:45:24.840 Amazon for all of their egregious behavior, but then both 1:45:24.840 --> 1:45:28.480 of our books, Amazon is a big part of the success. 1:45:28.520 --> 1:45:31.559 Like if you don't if people don't purchase books in 1:45:31.800 --> 1:45:36.000 masks through Amazon, they've cornered the market. So much that 1:45:36.160 --> 1:45:39.559 it's difficult to make many of the different lists out 1:45:39.600 --> 1:45:42.479 here that really kind of stamp your book to for 1:45:42.720 --> 1:45:44.719 so it can continue to grow and do well. 1:45:45.040 --> 1:45:46.800 And we got to just figure out, like what. 1:45:46.800 --> 1:45:50.080 You figure out, how do we control our own destiny? 1:45:50.160 --> 1:45:50.759 And it's hard. 1:45:51.000 --> 1:45:55.120 Bonds and nobles is a thing, but even still, it's 1:45:55.160 --> 1:45:59.080 not the Amazon fast market, and it's got to be 1:45:59.160 --> 1:46:01.040 a way to deal with that. I don't know who 1:46:01.080 --> 1:46:03.840 got the answers. That's a micro Dison question. We got 1:46:03.960 --> 1:46:05.240 to call him up and ask him. 1:46:05.640 --> 1:46:08.280 If he gets the answer to that, then we're gonna 1:46:08.280 --> 1:46:10.639 be good. Now. I don't get it. 1:46:12.160 --> 1:46:18.080 What I do not get is the congestion prices in 1:46:18.240 --> 1:46:22.599 New York City. We are so broken New York people 1:46:22.680 --> 1:46:25.120 ain't got two pities. 1:46:25.360 --> 1:46:26.320 What man? 1:46:26.520 --> 1:46:27.120 People listen to. 1:46:27.280 --> 1:46:28.040 People have money. 1:46:28.080 --> 1:46:31.439 People elected Trump because they said eggs and bread was high. 1:46:32.120 --> 1:46:33.880 They said they couldn't afford eggs and. 1:46:33.880 --> 1:46:38.080 Bread, they couldn't afford I argued, did. 1:46:38.000 --> 1:46:39.080 They not say that? 1:46:39.080 --> 1:46:41.800 The people not say that they couldn't afford eggs and bread? 1:46:42.400 --> 1:46:44.880 Trump and people said that. And when I said it 1:46:44.880 --> 1:46:45.559 to you said. 1:46:45.880 --> 1:46:47.759 Right, no, that's not what happened. 1:46:48.880 --> 1:46:49.439 What happened? 1:46:49.560 --> 1:46:53.160 What you said to me, was that eggs and bread 1:46:53.240 --> 1:46:54.599 is not that important, okay? 1:46:54.680 --> 1:46:56.640 And I said, yes, eggs, okay. 1:46:57.760 --> 1:46:59.280 If eggs and bread is important. 1:46:59.600 --> 1:47:04.280 But I don't think people people. I think people are 1:47:05.479 --> 1:47:08.559 I think that you're right. People might not be able 1:47:08.560 --> 1:47:10.800 to afford eggs and bread. You know why because they 1:47:10.920 --> 1:47:15.360 going to concerts and buying shoes, bags and whatever else 1:47:15.400 --> 1:47:20.000 and having dinners at fancy places and experiences. People are 1:47:20.160 --> 1:47:21.919 not as broke as they're telling. 1:47:21.920 --> 1:47:23.800 Man is broken. 1:47:24.479 --> 1:47:28.040 I they said that they. 1:47:28.080 --> 1:47:30.920 On the credit card, they buying it on the credit card. 1:47:30.960 --> 1:47:33.559 Listen to me, pay the credit card and they don't. 1:47:34.400 --> 1:47:37.120 People don't pay the credit card. Looks people are scamming. 1:47:37.160 --> 1:47:39.439 There's certain types of credit cards you have to pay. 1:47:39.240 --> 1:47:40.960 Every money every day. 1:47:41.000 --> 1:47:43.679 The scammers that are all the time high they putting 1:47:43.680 --> 1:47:47.240 it on for six months. People ain't got money to 1:47:47.320 --> 1:47:50.599 be going. Listen to me. The mt A an easy 1:47:50.680 --> 1:47:53.960 Past is the biggest con artists in the world. 1:47:54.000 --> 1:47:56.040 They should be having a reco charge. It's no way 1:47:56.560 --> 1:47:58.280 the way. The amount of money that I paid the 1:47:58.400 --> 1:48:01.680 easy pass is unbelieve. I can't believe it. 1:48:01.800 --> 1:48:03.640 And then they got it to where when you go 1:48:03.720 --> 1:48:06.760 to the easy pass, they tell you to replenish, and 1:48:06.800 --> 1:48:09.000 then they tell you you can't just give them what 1:48:09.080 --> 1:48:09.960 you want to give them. 1:48:10.080 --> 1:48:10.519 You can't. 1:48:10.560 --> 1:48:12.080 You try to say, I'm put one hundred fifty to 1:48:12.080 --> 1:48:14.439 say no, no, no, gotta put two hundred fifty. You gotta 1:48:14.439 --> 1:48:16.160 put three. You be like, what what are you even 1:48:16.240 --> 1:48:19.400 talking about? And then if you if it's automatic replenished, 1:48:19.640 --> 1:48:22.519 if you replenish that two fifty last time, if you 1:48:22.560 --> 1:48:25.639 if you you go through the easy pass one time 1:48:25.680 --> 1:48:28.519 more than you did, it'll replenish that three fifty next time, 1:48:28.600 --> 1:48:30.479 and then it replenished at four and four fifty, and 1:48:30.520 --> 1:48:32.439 next thing you know, you'll be confused, like, wait, I 1:48:32.479 --> 1:48:35.920 the coolest money went. These people are crazy and these 1:48:36.080 --> 1:48:40.120 people are running a scam. This congesting price makes absolutely 1:48:40.200 --> 1:48:42.320 no sense. If you want people not to go in 1:48:42.360 --> 1:48:45.320 the city, then then don't have places for them to park. 1:48:45.400 --> 1:48:47.200 I'd rather you do not have places. And then when 1:48:47.240 --> 1:48:50.040 you go to the city, you still gotta pocket. You 1:48:50.120 --> 1:48:53.120 gotta charge people sixty dollars. People is paying sixty dollars 1:48:53.120 --> 1:48:56.760 for parkt that's already a congested price. That's already a 1:48:56.760 --> 1:48:59.760 congestin you're paying sixty seventy dollars apart for one and 1:48:59.840 --> 1:49:03.280 two who hours, So you gotta pay nine dollars a 1:49:03.400 --> 1:49:06.280 change to get into the city and then pay fifty 1:49:06.280 --> 1:49:09.040 to sixty dollars the park, and then if you outside 1:49:09.400 --> 1:49:13.360 on the meter, they charged you like fourteen to fifteen. 1:49:13.120 --> 1:49:15.200 Dollars an hour depart. Like it's crazy. 1:49:15.400 --> 1:49:18.559 It just doesn't even make It makes zero amount of 1:49:18.600 --> 1:49:22.400 sense that you keep on raising these prices. Didn't burnt 1:49:22.439 --> 1:49:24.559 the lady up on the train. Now you're forcing people 1:49:24.800 --> 1:49:25.880 to go on the train. 1:49:26.000 --> 1:49:29.559 Another and white supremacists on the train whatever they're doing. 1:49:29.640 --> 1:49:32.599 Daniel Petty is out here. So you forced the black 1:49:32.640 --> 1:49:36.519 man onto the train. And you know what, we ain't safety. 1:49:36.880 --> 1:49:37.160 This is. 1:49:38.680 --> 1:49:40.840 A robbers and the white supremacist. 1:49:41.000 --> 1:49:43.759 We ain't got a chance man and the rat whoever, 1:49:43.880 --> 1:49:47.720 and the rats and the rat the train got the 1:49:47.760 --> 1:49:50.400 white supremacist, the rats, like. 1:49:50.400 --> 1:49:53.400 The kid said the robber, The rats go crazy, the. 1:49:53.880 --> 1:49:57.240 Throw in front of the train people, the burn up people. 1:49:57.800 --> 1:49:59.160 Everything you could think of. 1:49:59.280 --> 1:50:01.439 Is down on the We ain't gonna make it. 1:50:01.520 --> 1:50:04.720 No, but the congestion pricing, I think it's I think 1:50:04.760 --> 1:50:05.760 it's really messed up. 1:50:05.800 --> 1:50:08.240 It's I'm not a lot. 1:50:08.360 --> 1:50:11.240 I do want to see first of all, I think 1:50:11.280 --> 1:50:15.960 congestion pricing is all about making it more convenient for 1:50:16.160 --> 1:50:18.640 rich people to be able to do their business peacefully, 1:50:18.840 --> 1:50:22.519 right because their trucks are delayed getting wherever they needed 1:50:22.560 --> 1:50:26.439 to get for deliveries. They are these business people are 1:50:26.520 --> 1:50:28.639 riding around trying to go to their meeting. They need 1:50:28.680 --> 1:50:31.160 to make it in fifteen minutes, and they can't get there, 1:50:31.640 --> 1:50:33.800 and they and and really it's all New York is 1:50:33.800 --> 1:50:36.760 all about the convenience of people who have money. So 1:50:36.880 --> 1:50:40.720 I don't agree with congestion pricing from that perspective. And 1:50:40.760 --> 1:50:43.519 I also do not think with all of the stress 1:50:43.760 --> 1:50:46.240 for real, for real. We was joking earlier, but people 1:50:46.280 --> 1:50:48.960 are stressed. Daycare is high. 1:50:48.680 --> 1:50:51.639 Food is high. I don't think people can't afford it. 1:50:51.920 --> 1:50:54.439 You don't think they can't, No, because I see how 1:50:54.479 --> 1:50:55.080 people live. 1:50:55.200 --> 1:50:56.200 I see how people live. 1:50:56.680 --> 1:50:57.280 People live. 1:50:57.760 --> 1:51:02.920 We all above mere means y'all live above people. 1:51:03.560 --> 1:51:05.160 If you can't afford. 1:51:04.800 --> 1:51:07.599 It, you're buying. Because let me tell you something. There's 1:51:07.640 --> 1:51:11.519 a Popeyes that's blocks away from my house. The line 1:51:12.080 --> 1:51:14.120 is wrapped around. 1:51:13.760 --> 1:51:15.479 All day people trying to eat. 1:51:15.560 --> 1:51:18.519 No, it's not just people trying to eat, because if 1:51:18.560 --> 1:51:21.080 you go to the store and get you a bag 1:51:21.120 --> 1:51:24.559 of chicken or a thing of chicken. It's gonna maybe 1:51:24.640 --> 1:51:27.400 cost you, I don't know. I'm gonna say twelve dollars, 1:51:27.439 --> 1:51:32.240 thirteen dollars. These people, that's the problem. That's the problem 1:51:32.479 --> 1:51:36.400 if you buy a bag twelve or thirteen dollars, even 1:51:36.400 --> 1:51:38.599 if it's twenty dollars for a bag of chicken, which 1:51:38.640 --> 1:51:40.640 is outrageous. But let's just say it's tway dollars for 1:51:40.680 --> 1:51:42.360 a bag of chicken, which is high. 1:51:42.720 --> 1:51:44.559 These people are going. 1:51:44.360 --> 1:51:47.799 To the Popeyes two times a week, getting a twenty 1:51:48.120 --> 1:51:51.040 box with this, that and the And when I say, 1:51:51.240 --> 1:51:53.240 like you said, when I say people, I'm not talking 1:51:53.240 --> 1:51:56.760 about I don't buy Popeyes anymore. Not because I'm protesting 1:51:56.840 --> 1:51:59.679 properes because I love me some Popeyes, but just because 1:51:59.680 --> 1:52:00.719 it's just it's not healthy. 1:52:01.200 --> 1:52:04.360 But people are spending money on what they want to 1:52:04.400 --> 1:52:07.280 spend it on. When I'm out and I'm out with. 1:52:07.160 --> 1:52:10.360 My girlfriends who are complaining about the costs of everything. 1:52:10.760 --> 1:52:15.200 Their hair is polished, baby, their nails are wonderful. I 1:52:15.240 --> 1:52:17.760 have one friend, and you we know who this friend is. 1:52:18.200 --> 1:52:23.000 This friend is always complaining about she's struggling, she going yeah. 1:52:23.800 --> 1:52:26.200 When I tell you her nails is the best nails 1:52:26.240 --> 1:52:26.960 I've ever seen. 1:52:27.120 --> 1:52:28.040 It don't matter. 1:52:28.120 --> 1:52:31.439 People is so like my father used to say, why 1:52:31.479 --> 1:52:33.080 y'all don't know how to do your own hair? 1:52:33.479 --> 1:52:34.840 How come y'all because. 1:52:34.560 --> 1:52:35.320 Don't come from that. 1:52:35.560 --> 1:52:41.000 Your father grew up in the school of do for self. 1:52:41.320 --> 1:52:44.519 We pour, we gonna make, we eat Lord, we cooking 1:52:44.560 --> 1:52:47.920 food with Lord, and bacon, fat back and all that. 1:52:48.280 --> 1:52:50.240 This. They grew up in that era. We ain't grew 1:52:50.320 --> 1:52:50.600 up in it. 1:52:50.640 --> 1:52:52.800 We grew up with most of the figure out how 1:52:52.800 --> 1:52:53.240 to go back. 1:52:53.840 --> 1:52:56.920 My mama was the last mama that I know. These 1:52:56.920 --> 1:53:00.400 mamas ain't cooking in the house cooking today. 1:53:00.920 --> 1:53:06.080 All I am saying is that I think people are 1:53:06.160 --> 1:53:12.000 stretched very far broken. I don't think and I don't 1:53:12.000 --> 1:53:14.960 agree with that. I think people are stretched very far. 1:53:15.640 --> 1:53:20.519 I think opportunities for ownership and otherwise in the city 1:53:20.520 --> 1:53:24.439 of New York has become so difficult for the average 1:53:24.520 --> 1:53:28.320 person to attain that it's out of control, and I 1:53:28.360 --> 1:53:31.000 think it's criminal. Right, So I agree with you that 1:53:31.080 --> 1:53:34.320 the city and the way in which we are living here. 1:53:34.520 --> 1:53:35.120 Is not right. 1:53:35.439 --> 1:53:39.240 I'm not saying that I think everybody's doing wonderful. I'm saying, yes, 1:53:39.439 --> 1:53:43.839 there's struggles and we're stretched, but we also live above 1:53:43.920 --> 1:53:47.280 our means, and if we figured out ways to live 1:53:47.400 --> 1:53:51.600 where we are more, where we have more collective responsibility 1:53:51.680 --> 1:53:54.879 for one another, like, for instance, you could trust somebody 1:53:54.920 --> 1:53:58.680 to actually watch your child and you don't have to 1:53:58.760 --> 1:54:02.360 spend two thousand dollars a freaking month for daycare. 1:54:03.439 --> 1:54:04.000 We don't do that. 1:54:04.439 --> 1:54:05.080 That means. 1:54:06.520 --> 1:54:09.680 Because the realities of what's going to cause for us 1:54:09.680 --> 1:54:11.719 to actually live inside New York. 1:54:11.560 --> 1:54:12.320 We don't have it. 1:54:12.560 --> 1:54:15.080 So we living beyond our means to actually live a 1:54:15.160 --> 1:54:18.200 life and have some level of joy. That means people 1:54:18.280 --> 1:54:18.880 is poor. 1:54:19.479 --> 1:54:22.519 We in God would say, Okay, I'm not gonna argue 1:54:22.600 --> 1:54:24.799 with that, but I just want to make my point 1:54:24.960 --> 1:54:26.839 on congestion pricing. 1:54:27.400 --> 1:54:30.759 But I'm getting that. I think that there. 1:54:30.680 --> 1:54:33.800 Is a big problem with congestion in this city because 1:54:33.880 --> 1:54:35.520 I'm one of the people that wants to get to 1:54:35.560 --> 1:54:36.840 my meeting in fifteen minutes. 1:54:36.880 --> 1:54:39.240 I know it's bougie, but hey, that's just my reality. 1:54:39.520 --> 1:54:42.760 I'm one of those people that cannot stand having to 1:54:42.800 --> 1:54:47.839 be in behind fifty sixty ubers, fifty sixty yellow calves, 1:54:47.880 --> 1:54:52.160 and regular people and everything else, and the trucks all 1:54:52.160 --> 1:54:54.040 at one time. I don't want to do that. It 1:54:54.120 --> 1:54:59.880 makes me very aggravated and frustrated. So I understand, howsoever, howsoever. 1:55:00.680 --> 1:55:04.200 I think there's enough money moving around in this city 1:55:04.240 --> 1:55:07.800 and in this state that this congestion pricing plan does 1:55:07.840 --> 1:55:11.120 not have to be what they impose on us. I 1:55:11.160 --> 1:55:13.840 think that there needs to be more done to look 1:55:13.880 --> 1:55:16.440 at the money that we waste on things like some 1:55:16.600 --> 1:55:20.480 of the policing that they still They got all the 1:55:20.520 --> 1:55:25.120 police on the train. The police are on the train. 1:55:26.960 --> 1:55:29.840 The train and the lady got burned up, and the 1:55:29.880 --> 1:55:34.240 cops was right there, right there. So I just don't 1:55:34.360 --> 1:55:36.960 I think that there's better ways to go about what 1:55:37.000 --> 1:55:37.720 they're trying to do. 1:55:37.760 --> 1:55:38.800 But I know this. 1:55:38.920 --> 1:55:41.000 I was in the car in the uber one day. 1:55:41.920 --> 1:55:44.360 I was on my way taking my parents to the opera. 1:55:45.240 --> 1:55:47.520 As yes, black people are going to the opera. I 1:55:47.560 --> 1:55:49.720 just want y'all to know, and I'm not saying I'm 1:55:49.760 --> 1:55:51.880 at the opera watching all white people sing. 1:55:52.240 --> 1:55:53.640 There are amazing. 1:55:53.880 --> 1:55:55.560 It was Malcolm XA that we went to see at 1:55:55.560 --> 1:55:58.760 the opera and it was amazing. So we were on 1:55:58.760 --> 1:56:05.720 our way there and while going down the traffic, which 1:56:05.720 --> 1:56:07.840 should have took us, like, let's say, an hour to 1:56:07.880 --> 1:56:09.880 get from home to the city, was like a two 1:56:09.880 --> 1:56:11.000 and a half hour day. 1:56:11.320 --> 1:56:12.720 Again, congestion. 1:56:13.760 --> 1:56:16.960 So the uber driver now becomes our friend because we're 1:56:17.000 --> 1:56:20.000 in this car for all of this time together, and 1:56:20.040 --> 1:56:23.160 we start talking about congestion pricing and how we're gonna 1:56:23.160 --> 1:56:24.440 deal with the traffic in the city. 1:56:24.560 --> 1:56:27.200 And you know what he said to me, it's not. 1:56:27.360 --> 1:56:33.240 That people won't pay because they still going where they're going, 1:56:33.480 --> 1:56:36.040 and they're still gonna get to the city in the 1:56:36.080 --> 1:56:39.160 ways in which they always have done. They're still gonna 1:56:39.200 --> 1:56:41.280 do what they're doing, and they're gonna pay the price. 1:56:41.800 --> 1:56:44.600 But what's gonna go up is robberies. 1:56:45.480 --> 1:56:47.760 Yeah right, people. 1:56:47.600 --> 1:56:52.400 Crab because people not going to spend money, and then 1:56:52.520 --> 1:56:56.800 you living well and having cocktails that you can get 1:56:56.840 --> 1:56:59.840 to in fifteen minutes and they over here struggling. 1:57:00.160 --> 1:57:02.240 That's not gonna happen. 1:57:01.640 --> 1:57:04.120 Man, So it's gonna be hell to pay. 1:57:04.200 --> 1:57:07.120 Man, y'all better figure it out, because people ain't gonna 1:57:07.120 --> 1:57:09.959 just be messed up. People not gonna just starve, man. 1:57:10.200 --> 1:57:11.960 Some damn congestion prices, y'all. 1:57:12.000 --> 1:57:16.000 People, man, you're just speaking for yourself, am I'm. 1:57:15.840 --> 1:57:19.520 On the train man anyway. 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