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Speaker 2: and today, Man, we have got a very very special

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Speaker 2: how are you doing today.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Brandon, I'm wanted to be with you. Man. I

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Speaker 2: Oh Man, thank you so much again for pulling up.

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Speaker 1: The people have been there for ten years, the folks

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Speaker 1: with the big titles. They got to do with the

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Speaker 1: great projects. All is left is the crap, right, take

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Speaker 1: crap and turn it in the cream, right, impress that

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Speaker 1: boss because you show, because you're in his face. Because

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Speaker 1: it's all about relationship capital.

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Speaker 2: Yeah right.

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Speaker 1: You don't have financial capital, we don't have inherited capital,

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Speaker 1: but you can have relationship with capital. Because we are

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Speaker 1: good at being cool. We're we have master cool in culture.

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Speaker 1: We are not likable, warm loving people. Use it as

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Speaker 1: your assets. Stop happy. The only asset on your ass

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Speaker 1: that's on your ass. Stop it, knock it off, go

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Speaker 1: in there and press that boss. Show up at work.

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Speaker 1: Because love is work. Non love is laziness. Anti love

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Speaker 1: is evil. Evil exists, Brandon, but it's very rare. Mostly

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Speaker 1: it just lazy, intellectually lazy, spiritually lazy, physically lazy, financially lazy,

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00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,680
Speaker 1: emotional lazy. They don't want to do the work. They

442
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Speaker 1: want somebody to do it for them. Like the gud

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Speaker 1: telling me that he wants me to say black people.

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Speaker 1: My point responds back to them is no, you're going

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Speaker 1: to have to save you. I'm gonna give you the latter.

446
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Speaker 1: You're gonna have to go up it. So we should

447
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Speaker 1: have been back in the office when no one else

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Speaker 1: was what's happening, so that people say, oh, John, you

449
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:52,520
Speaker 1: don't understand the office is did Okay, here's what I understand.

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Speaker 1: There's over a trillion dollars of commercial mortgages that came

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Speaker 1: due for refinands in twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: If you think that Wall Street and bankers and some

453
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Speaker 1: of the biggest companies in the world are gonna let

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Speaker 1: their assets go bankrupt because you've got a cultural moment,

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Speaker 1: you out your you out your cotton picking mind. That's

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Speaker 1: number one. Do you think these banks that out of

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Speaker 1: this stuff on their on their balance sheet are gonna

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Speaker 1: write that off a trillion dollars you out of your

459
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Speaker 1: cotton picking mind? Or they do. They pushed it down,

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Speaker 1: they kicked it down the road, they gave it an

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Speaker 1: extension on the loan. They didn't call it, they didn't foreclose.

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Speaker 1: It kicked it down the road, right, And then what

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Speaker 1: do you start hearing CEO say, not just because of

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Speaker 1: the reason I'm about to give you financially, but because

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Speaker 1: of cultural reasons I need you back.

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Speaker 2: In the offeh.

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Speaker 1: By the way, what's people say? So now? People say, oh, John,

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Speaker 1: so you're saying it's a game. No, I'm saying you

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Speaker 1: don't understand the game. There's a dating app. What's the

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Speaker 1: purpose of a dating app? Get dates, get connections in person? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: So am I missing? Like Stee want to my brother,

472
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Speaker 1: he's my friend. Now, Steve Wander can see this like

473
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Speaker 1: it is every By the way, Steve want I can

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Speaker 1: see better than most people. That's a whole nother story.

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Speaker 1: That's a whole other story. Like for me and him

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Speaker 1: in the studio at midnight and I'm handicapping him thinking

477
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Speaker 1: that he can't see. And my brother's got a a

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Speaker 1: phone with brail. He's got's letters with the brail machine.

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Speaker 1: He's more competent than most people. Lady I was dating

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Speaker 1: back then, he's filling on earth trying to tell about Oh,

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Speaker 1: what's your name? Lady? In front of you you can

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Speaker 1: see just so, So what am I saying. I'm saying

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Speaker 1: that the whole purpose of that dating app is to

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Speaker 1: get in front of the person for an actual date. Hello,

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Speaker 1: the purpose of cryptocurrency is to convert it into cash. Hell,

486
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Speaker 1: let's not playing this game. Knock it off. Like so,

487
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Speaker 1: if you have a chance to get relationship capital with

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Speaker 1: decision makers, you're not gonna do that. Virtually, technology is

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Speaker 1: more ef This ship is not more effective. Quick story

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Speaker 1: during the pandemic. By the way, the one thing the

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Speaker 1: chap got wrong was I sold the company Promise Homes.

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Speaker 1: I'm I built it. I sold it for one hundred

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Speaker 1: and twenty one million dollars. I'm a modest shareholder now,

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Speaker 1: but I'm on my way actually trying to exit that company,

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Speaker 1: so I'm allowed to start another one. But anyway, when

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Speaker 1: I was selling that company, I had told Henry Kravitz

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Speaker 1: of KKR fame. When we are two video calls. What's

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Speaker 1: going on with you, John, blah blah blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: I also have this company. I'm about to sell it.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's great. I'll go to New York in the

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Speaker 1: middle of the pandemic. Hey, Henry, I'm in New York. Now,

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Speaker 1: no one's in his office. Come and see me. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I go by. We have lunch. He shows me his office.

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Speaker 1: He shows me is model Bugatti and his office. He

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Speaker 1: showed me his views. He just moved into Hudson Yards.

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Speaker 1: He's by the way pandemic. He bought the built the building.

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Speaker 1: He's got a floor for KKR too. He's got an

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Speaker 1: insurance company that he invested in below them. So he

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Speaker 1: clearly values personal interaction. But there's nobody there. He goes

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Speaker 1: into the kitchen, the cafeteria where his employees one day

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Speaker 1: will be. He's bracked. He's very proud of it. We

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Speaker 1: go to his private dining room. Tell me what's going

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Speaker 1: on with you, Jim huh? Now, Brandon, I just talked

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Speaker 1: to him three weeks before that. I told him, Okay, fine,

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Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah, blah, I mentioned my business. Really,

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Speaker 1: it's as if I said it for the first time.

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Speaker 1: Is this real estate? Yes, tell me about that. Hey, Billy,

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Speaker 1: he had a real estate Come in here, Senate Paupa,

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Speaker 1: Chair John, repeat that. This is the fourth time I

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Speaker 1: play around. I played along with it. I mentioned, Billy,

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Speaker 1: we should be in this business, Brandon. They made an offer.

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Speaker 1: They made an offer to buy my company. Now it

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Speaker 1: was outbid by somebody else. But the point of that

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Speaker 1: is they didn't make an offer when I was on

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Speaker 1: virtual They walked right past it. It was a forty

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Speaker 1: five minute call. The point was, get off the call,

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Speaker 1: get through it. Nobody remembers anything that they did during

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Speaker 1: the pandemic. It's all one blur, right, But human interaction,

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Speaker 1: the warmth, the engagement. We're not human doings. We're human beings.

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Speaker 1: So we're not human beings having a spiritual experience, where

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Speaker 1: spiritual beings have having a human experience. Energy matters. Take

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Speaker 1: your energy and your rear in and go in that office,

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Speaker 1: Get in front of that investor, get in front of

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Speaker 1: that employer, or get it wherever you're trying to impress

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Speaker 1: right and make an impression on them. Last point I

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Speaker 1: want to make before I shut up for your audience

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00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 1: is really important. Stop making everything personal. Capitalism is this table. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: I've already said capitalism the gladiator sport. Business is this table.

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00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 1: You're on one side of the table, I'm on the other.

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Speaker 1: You're the producer, I'm the consumer. In this example, your job,

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Speaker 1: your job is to extract as much money from me

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Speaker 1: for your product while giving me the least amount of value.

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Speaker 1: My job is to pay the lease for your product.

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Speaker 1: Why obtaining the most value? That's my job. Have I

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Speaker 1: missed something?

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Speaker 2: Brandan, No, you're on point.

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Speaker 1: That's our jobs. Stop taking it personal. A good negotiation

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00:28:56,360 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 1: is where everybody leaves that negotiating table slightly annoyed. So

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00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 1: we have just missed the basics, Like when the rules

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Speaker 1: of published and the playing fiellers level black folks kill it,

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00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 1: professional sports, the arts, faith, church, politics, the military were

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Speaker 1: the rules of published in the plainfield's level. When we

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Speaker 1: know how to play this game, we absolutely kill it.

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00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,479
Speaker 1: We master it. No one's ever taught us capitalism are

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00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: free enterprise, and worse, they've told us is evil to

556
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Speaker 1: keep us away from it. And I'm trying to democratize

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Speaker 1: this conversation. I'm trying to. I'm going to create the

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Speaker 1: biggest infrastructure, the largest plumbing, economic plumbing, first for Black America,

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Speaker 1: then black and brown America, and then even poor whites.

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Speaker 1: The bottom half of the society deserves to have a

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Speaker 1: private banker, and I'm doing that at scale. I have

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Speaker 1: fifteen hundred offices across this country in forty two states,

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Speaker 1: and my goal is have fifteen thousand offices. We will

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Speaker 1: become the Steve Jobs in the apple of economic empowerment.

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Speaker 1: Financial literacy will be the civil rights issue of this generation.

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Speaker 1: And I think that AI literacy should be the civil

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Speaker 1: rights issue of this generation. From the streets to the suites.

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Speaker 1: This is a moment in history. Man like this, this

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Speaker 1: is the world changing stuff and it's happening right now.

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Speaker 1: And we've got to upgrade our software. There's no time

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Speaker 1: to be messing around. It's not time to be having

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Speaker 1: stupid arguments argue with the food cruiser are too We've

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Speaker 1: got to knock it off, knock all the stupid stuff out.

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Speaker 1: If you hang around nine broke people, you're gonna be

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Speaker 1: the tenth. Like I tell people, Okay, you don't like

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, has the other shit you've been doing work. Hello, Okay,

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Speaker 1: civil rights very important. Let's just get people off of you.

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Speaker 1: All civil rights is let's just get get bad people

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Speaker 1: off of you, bad systems off of you. They don't

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Speaker 1: pay your mortgage. It's gonna pay your car now. It's

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Speaker 1: red rooms to keep bad things from happening to you. Right,

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Speaker 1: the government's gonna save us. Okay, how's that working out

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Speaker 1: for you? This president had made it absolutely clear. I

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Speaker 1: was in Harlem last week, doctor George Fraser, who's great?

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Speaker 1: And I said to the room, I said, you know,

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Speaker 1: this president has succeeded in one thing. He has completely

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Speaker 1: unified black people for the first time since the nineteen sixties.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it wasn't his goal, but we are now

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00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 1: completely We're reading the Constitution, We're reading the Bill of Rights.

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00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 1: We want to know what the Executive Order is. We

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00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 1: reading books. We try to understand financial literacy, like whoa, whoa,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, like people are real clear that we

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Speaker 1: own our own by the way. I don't like how

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Speaker 1: we got here, but I like the message. Yes, you

595
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 1: are on You've always been on your own. Jews realize

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00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 1: this six thousand years ago, three thousand years before Jesus

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Speaker 1: who created modern finance and trading, and it was really

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00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: trading and business really an economic basis, and then finance

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00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: came out of that. That was Middle Easterners, Dark Africans

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Speaker 1: and Jews, who were mostly dark. By the way, well,

601
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Speaker 1: the Middle Easterns were in the prime shipping lanes Brandon

602
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: back then, so people just kept them distracted and dazed

603
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Speaker 1: and confused and kept sort of colonizing them. To this day,

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00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 1: they're traders because they were sort of not empowered, never talked,

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00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 1: never educated unless they found oil. Blacks were colonized because

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00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 1: we had the richest soil, and at that time in

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Speaker 1: the agricultural age, Brandon the largest intelligence, which was agricultural

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Speaker 1: intelligence on the planet. So they couldn't empower us. They

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00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: needed to get us confused and dazed and dejected and

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Speaker 1: not to realize that we were the go mind. We

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00:32:54,880 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: were sitting on Africa, and to get confused about what

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Speaker 1: was going on with slavery, which was all about taking

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Speaker 1: genius of the land and bringing it to the gold

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Speaker 1: of that era, which was places where you could have

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Speaker 1: cotton and all the rest of the things. Jews did

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Speaker 1: not have a country until a few years ago in

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Speaker 1: the world history has a few years ago, they were

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Speaker 1: scattered all around the world. But the Jews who went

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Speaker 1: to Europe and are married, and they start looking lighter

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Speaker 1: and start looking at European they could blend in canon land.

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Speaker 1: They learned finance which allowed them to control the land.

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Speaker 1: What's the number one group of minorities in the world

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Speaker 1: today that's mastered wealth and freedom through self determination? Jews,

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Speaker 1: I mean black folks need a black Jewish business plan.

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Speaker 1: And by scattering them all around the world, they now

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Speaker 1: have contacts all around the world for global trade. All

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to do in an hour with you is

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Speaker 1: to get us to see what Malcolm Mexic has been saying.

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Speaker 1: I'm typically I'll tell you about Andrew Young and doctor King.

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Speaker 1: That's who typically our quote. But this is a Malcolm

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Speaker 1: X moment. We've been bamboozled, we've been tricked, we've been food,

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Speaker 1: we've been hoodwink, we've been led them up. That's a

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Speaker 1: that's a Malcolm X quote. And we've become emotional and

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Speaker 1: we've been played. Andrew Young quote delivering a system of

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Speaker 1: free enterprise, and not to understand the rules of free

636
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: enterprise must be the very definition of slavery. So nothing

637
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:28,720
Speaker 1: that I've said is rocket science. Even the word white,

638
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: racial word white is made up. Whites and blacks were

639
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 1: friends when in different servitude started in the sixteen hundreds,

640
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: and that was a problem for the people who were

641
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 1: in power, so they messed that up. And now poor

642
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,799
Speaker 1: whites and poor blacks forty years later at each other's throat.

643
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 1: Why I asked, I'm gonna asking rational, why are we that?

644
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 1: That makes no sense? But this is not meant to

645
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:54,759
Speaker 1: make sense. It's meant to make somebody else sense, as

646
00:34:54,800 --> 00:35:00,760
Speaker 1: in dollars. So I'm trying to suggest a radical movement

647
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,919
Speaker 1: of common sense. It's what you preach on this show.

648
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 1: We need to fight the new fight from the shoulders up.

649
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: One of the things you talked about, and I love

651
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 2: your game. You talked about is understanding the rules of

652
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 2: the game and how the game works. And one of

653
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:28,360
Speaker 2: my favorite books is forty Million Dollars Slaves by William C. Roaden,

654
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 2: and he kind of talks about that same concept, but

655
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 2: he applies it to sports. He talks about who all

656
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 2: through sports, right, especially for black athletes, all through the years.

657
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 2: To your point, we always excelled, but whenever we excelled

658
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:41,360
Speaker 2: at a certain point. They always found a way to

659
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 2: change the rules of the game, and you know then

660
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:44,959
Speaker 2: even the athletes will still excel.

661
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 1: You know.

662
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:47,239
Speaker 2: You think about Tiger Woods when he was back there

663
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:49,439
Speaker 2: kicking everybody's butt, you know, on the Masters and in golf,

664
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 2: and they were changing the course around, and he still

665
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 2: went in there and excelled, right, And so you see

666
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 2: this kind of happening all the time to where even

667
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:56,840
Speaker 2: though you know, again the rules get changed, we have

668
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 2: to kind of you know, shift around, we still find

669
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 2: ways to perseverere. What I want to know from you

670
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:04,359
Speaker 2: is you've had a chance to meet and talk and

671
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 2: sit with the one percent of the one percent, not

672
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 2: just the people that have wealth, but they have power,

673
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,040
Speaker 2: They have influence that at a global scale that some

674
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 2: people probably can't really even fathom. What is it that

675
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 2: they understand about money and growth and wealth and power

676
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 2: that we tend to miss out on and we don't

677
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:22,280
Speaker 2: fully understand.

678
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you ask excellent questions. Thank you. When you go

679
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 1: to a wealthy neighborhood, there quiet just like this room,

680
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:34,279
Speaker 1: just like right now. So you can think you go

681
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: to a black neighborhood or brow neighborhood. You go to

682
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: a poor neighborhood, it's noisy as hell. Intentionally, they value simplicity.

683
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 1: That's why you often will see them with a T

684
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 1: shirt and and jenes on. They need quiet because it's

685
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: only in quiet can you create right in peace. I'm

686
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:55,800
Speaker 1: sorry that you can create and creation what all the

687
00:36:55,880 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 1: patent is is a monetized creation. Right. They understand you

688
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 1: can make more money on money than money can ever

689
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: make on labor. I'm saying this very slowly so the

690
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 1: audience can absorb it. They understand you can make more

691
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 1: money on money. Rephrase that money makes more money on

692
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: money than money can never make on labor. Okay. They

693
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 1: understand you make money during the day. You build wealth

694
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: in your sleep because it's compounding stocks, bonds, homeownership, business ownership, etc.

695
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 1: They understand that if everybody has the information that they

696
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 1: have at the same time that they have, and it

697
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,239
Speaker 1: has optimism, willing to play by the rules, do the

698
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 1: right things, that everybody. They won't say this, they won't

699
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:49,720
Speaker 1: acknowledge this, but everybody actually could succeed potentially at their level.

700
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:53,880
Speaker 1: They're not interested in that part. They're not trying to

701
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,360
Speaker 1: Here's where we get it wrong. We believe it's personal.

702
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:59,439
Speaker 1: They are trying to hold us back. No, no, no,

703
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 1: trying to get ahead as far ahead as fast as

704
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 1: they can. That's capitalism, that's competitive juices. That's no different

705
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:13,279
Speaker 1: than than an athlete. It's no different than somebody with

706
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:18,280
Speaker 1: a rap or you know, anything else that you want

707
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:23,279
Speaker 1: to covet your knowledge and use your hustle and your

708
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,840
Speaker 1: unique brand to get as far ahead to distinguish yourself

709
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 1: as you can.

710
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 2: That's always say to create distance.

711
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 1: Yes, that's what they want. They want to create distance,

712
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 1: and they don't mind you having a few snacks once

713
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 1: they created some distance. What I have said is if

714
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 1: you go far enough to the north to pull you

715
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 1: end up south. If the top five percent, the top

716
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: ten percent becomes the top two percent, the top one percent,

717
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: and then the top zero zero one percent, I've said,

718
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 1: my rich friends now need my poor friends to do better,

719
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 1: if only to stay rich. So now the world has

720
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:00,399
Speaker 1: completely changed. God has a sense of humor. And here's

721
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 1: now I'm going to pivot to the question you asked earlier. Yes,

722
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 1: I did listen to you. In what ways are black

723
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 1: people positioned to succeed in this world? That everything is changing.

724
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: We are incredibly well positioned. We've been doing so much

725
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 1: with so little for so long. We can almost do

726
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 1: anything with nothing. A lot of other folks are about

727
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 1: to have a lot of problems. They don't know how

728
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 1: to deal with problems. The problem with them is, you know,

729
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 1: don Johnny got sick at school and got a scrape

730
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 1: at two o'clock. They're freaking out. You know, we have

731
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: a crisis every Tuesday. We're experts at crisis management number two.

732
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 1: We fall every day. You can't fall from the floor.

733
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 1: We're already on the floor, so we take no for vitamins.

734
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm,

735
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 1: over and rounded through it. We're going to get to it.

736
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 1: We're great at hustle. We're great at creation. Again. We

737
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 1: had a choice to make back six thousand years ago.

738
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:05,439
Speaker 1: We were Our choice was creativity, culture and cool. Their

739
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:12,359
Speaker 1: choice was capitalism, commerce and money. We can revise our

740
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:16,839
Speaker 1: choices from rocking the mic to owning it. So in

741
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty America was ninety percent Caucasian. To make sure

742
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 1: that number was right in my head, nineteen fifty one,

743
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 1: the United States of America was ninety percent Caucasian. I

744
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:31,439
Speaker 1: want the audience to think about this for a moment,

745
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 1: not the South, the whole country. So with my mentor

746
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:39,280
Speaker 1: ambassador Andrew Young, who built Atlanta into the only international

747
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:41,399
Speaker 1: city in the South, the only mintee of doctor King

748
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: ever to become mayor congressman, you an ambassador, and to

749
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: creating a global economy which is the tenth of Lar's

750
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: economy in the US. This is not by accident. That

751
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: was This is doctor King's business plan on a city,

752
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: and we've proven you can do well and do good

753
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: at scale. Andrew Young did it. But with doctor King,

754
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:03,720
Speaker 1: with Andrew Young, and credit Scott King, and the heroes

755
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 1: and she ros of that day. What they did was

756
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 1: unbelievable because they took up because eight or six percent

757
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 1: or eight percent of the US population back then converted

758
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,439
Speaker 1: ninety percent of the population to do the right thing.

759
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 1: Think about this brand and it's crazy. Today America's forty

760
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 1: percent black and brown. Within ten years it will be

761
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: a majority of minorities. Black people in brown people and

762
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 1: women are forty percent of the GDP, seventy percent of

763
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 1: the GDP gross domestic product the income of the country.

764
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 1: It's consumer spending, we're the largest economy in the world,

765
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: were the sole superpower in the world. You never had

766
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 1: a superpower that was in the economic power at the

767
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 1: same time in the history of the world. Never has

768
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:52,360
Speaker 1: there been a time where a superpower in the economic

769
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: power needed the population, the diverse population, to continue to win.

770
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:03,359
Speaker 1: Demographic their destiny. So you have now a group of

771
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:08,360
Speaker 1: baby boomers sixty five years of age, all trying to retire.

772
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 1: At the same time, you've gotten more people over sixty

773
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 1: five than under age eighteen, and the majority of those

774
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 1: under eighteen look like you and me, the once over

775
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 1: sixty five or experts of financial literacy. We don't have

776
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 1: any idea what financial literacy means. Basically, all these folks

777
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 1: at the top they have they represent about one hundred

778
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 1: and fifty trillion dollars of wealth. About one hundred trillion

779
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 1: dollars of that is going to transition through inheritance in

780
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: the next ten to fifteen years. They got to give

781
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 1: their stocks, the bonds, the homes, the cash to the wives,

782
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: the husbands, and the children. Nobody wants the businesses. These

783
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:48,760
Speaker 1: are successful, profitable, cash flowing businesses with real estate brands.

784
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:51,319
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with them. Nobody wants them that want

785
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 1: to do the work. That's fifteen trillion dollars of existing

786
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 1: profitable businesses that don't have a secession plan. We should

787
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 1: be the succession plan. Hello, go find the dentists. Off

788
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 1: walking to your dentists and if your dentist at sixty five,

789
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:10,319
Speaker 1: take them a lunch. Go to your go to your

790
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 1: law firm, where you go go to, go to the

791
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:15,440
Speaker 1: architecture office. Go like this is not complicated, Like just

792
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 1: go look around. You can always tell the business owner

793
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 1: go into the to the you don't have to look

794
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:21,360
Speaker 1: for the This is to be like high tech and

795
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 1: like you know allan tree dollars. No, no, no, these

796
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 1: are twenty million dollar businesses, five million dollar businesses. Like

797
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: this is enough for a wealthy lifestyle. Go find the

798
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 1: local anything that's doing well in your town. They've got

799
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 1: a brand of reputation. If the owner looks sixty five

800
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 1: or sixty, become their best friend, right and at some

801
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 1: point say, you know, i'd be interested if if you're

802
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 1: interested in trying to buy your business, keeping your legacy alive.

803
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 1: I've got hustle, i got I've got intellect, I've got

804
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:55,879
Speaker 1: a degree, I've got I can put a management team

805
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:58,319
Speaker 1: in place. As you've known me for the last six months.

806
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: We have a good relationship. I've got people's skills, I've

807
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 1: got warmth, and the owner goes, I really like you, Yeah,

808
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: you really do you. Actually you remind me of my children.

809
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 1: The only difference is you like to work right. But

810
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 1: I don't have the capital, so I'll I'll get a

811
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 1: bank loan or I'll get Wall Street to back part

812
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:17,760
Speaker 1: of this. Would you be willing to take back some paper?

813
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:21,359
Speaker 1: Would you be willing to carry part of this? Uh?

814
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:23,359
Speaker 1: And of course if I screw it up, it comes

815
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 1: back to you. If I default, you get the business back.

816
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: I mean, what's the downside in this? Right? I just

817
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 1: gave you. I've never done this on anybody's show, but

818
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: I just gave folks, I don't know, ten minute million

819
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:39,320
Speaker 1: dollars with a game for ninety nine. This is not complicated.

820
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:42,360
Speaker 1: But we're looking for love and all the wrong places.

821
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:47,359
Speaker 1: So demographics your destiny. I've said on many shows when

822
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 1: people talking about DE and I knock it off. We're

823
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:52,719
Speaker 1: fifth on the list white Black people with a poster

824
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:54,400
Speaker 1: child for d E and I. We're fifth on the

825
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 1: dang on lists because they want you to be the

826
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 1: poster child so they can take race, conflict with liberalism

827
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 1: and woke whatever heck that means, and put you into

828
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: this box and then dismiss you, ignore d and I

829
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 1: I love diversity, all right. So my point is, if

830
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 1: this economy is consumer spending, and we are increasingly the

831
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:22,399
Speaker 1: majority of the country and we spend money. We all

832
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 1: know black people spend money all day, then this economy

833
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: actually needs us. Why are we just protesting some in

834
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: boycotting in some store. Don't just boycott them, buy them out.

835
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 1: Find every black product on their shelfs, coordinate that. Go

836
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:42,719
Speaker 1: coordinate a three hour buyout, buy out everything they've got.

837
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 1: Then send a letter. We become more We need to

838
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 1: become more sophisticated in our approaches. Send a letter to

839
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 1: the CEO, the chief financial officer, the chief buyer right,

840
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:53,360
Speaker 1: and the lead director on the board. We just bought

841
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 1: out all your products that are black manufactured. Please reorder

842
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: and let us know when you reorder, we'll be back.

843
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 1: Now you've got to respect. Now they say, oh my god, Okay,

844
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:08,319
Speaker 1: this is an emerging market. It's not black people. This

845
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: is green. It's always been. Brandon has always been green.

846
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:18,879
Speaker 1: It was green and slavery. There's such an opportunity right

847
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: in front of us. We've got to get out of

848
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:24,280
Speaker 1: our depression. We've got to get out of our pity party.

849
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 1: We got to get out of our wards me. We've

850
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 1: got to stop enabl gazing and admiring the problem. There's

851
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 1: no time to be pissed off, right, be pissed off later. Right, Yeah,

852
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 1: there's no time to be emotional. You need to get

853
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 1: on your game. Not you, You're already on your game.

854
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:44,360
Speaker 1: We need to get on our game. This is our time.

855
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 1: And that's exactly why they want you distracted. It's exactly

856
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:51,359
Speaker 1: why they don't want you to focus. This is an

857
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 1: incredible opportunity to get educated, to own a business, to start. Look,

858
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 1: I did a business plan. I try to remove all

859
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 1: of excuses that we could have. One of the last

860
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:05,440
Speaker 1: remaining things was like I said, let me create a

861
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 1: business plan for black America. Then I said, well, some

862
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 1: other people are going to complain that I'm being black nationalists,

863
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 1: which I'm not. I'm a do So I created a

864
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 1: business plan for rural America, poor white that I created

865
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 1: a business plan for women and a business plan for

866
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:24,400
Speaker 1: Indian Native American Indians, a Business Plan for Asians. I

867
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 1: covered every group and a business Plan for America. By

868
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: the way, people listening to this can download it. Go

869
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 1: to Dreamford, John Bryant, Jean Ford or John Bryant Operation

870
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: to Help Business Plan for America. Find it, download it.

871
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 1: It's there for you to look at it. And I

872
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:41,320
Speaker 1: laid it out. Here's why you shouldn't obsess about the government.

873
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:45,319
Speaker 1: If they got the government to do reparations that they

874
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:49,759
Speaker 1: really not doing it now. But if we did, if

875
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:54,760
Speaker 1: we did by some miracle, I'm gonna throw a number out, Brandon,

876
00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:57,799
Speaker 1: three hundred billion to six hundred billion. It's a lot

877
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 1: of money over twenty years, sounded by right, right, Okay,

878
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 1: it really owns forty one trillion. But that would bank

879
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 1: up the country. Okay, so let's let's be serious about Okay.

880
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 1: But if all we did was raise our credit score

881
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 1: one hundred points, because our average credit score almongst Black

882
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:14,239
Speaker 1: America is six to twenty, which means Pooky and them

883
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:17,000
Speaker 1: and Booble and already at five hundred are the predominant.

884
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:19,360
Speaker 1: And me, you and me, we have seven hundred and

885
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 1: seven twenty and we're just being pulled down by an average,

886
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:23,959
Speaker 1: so it's six twenty. If we raise our credit score

887
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:27,240
Speaker 1: to seven twenty, that's worth seven hundred and fifty billion

888
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 1: dollars in wealth creation in twenty years. If we then

889
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 1: took the credit score and went to go buy a house,

890
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 1: are number way you build wealth in America. So forty

891
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 1: four percent of was on a home if we just moved,

892
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:42,399
Speaker 1: but compared to seventy five percent of our white counterparts,

893
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:45,360
Speaker 1: if you just move that number from forty four percent

894
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 1: to sixty two percent, nothing miraculous a black home ownership.

895
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:53,160
Speaker 1: That's eight hundred billion dollars Brandon separate from the seven

896
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:56,879
Speaker 1: to fifty billion. Those two numbers alone, that's one point

897
00:48:56,920 --> 00:49:02,200
Speaker 1: five one point six trillion income comparison to the obsession

898
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 1: with the government that might if they had a deathbed

899
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:07,600
Speaker 1: conversion give you three hundred to six hundred billion over

900
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:09,200
Speaker 1: twenty years, which don't think they're going to ever do.

901
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: They're cutting things right at the moment. You then say, well,

902
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:15,759
Speaker 1: let's add AI own to that artificial intelligence that's a

903
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:20,680
Speaker 1: trillion minimum. Then you add owning buying these businesses that

904
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:24,919
Speaker 1: I just mentioned six percent of the fifteen trillion less

905
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:29,720
Speaker 1: than that a trillion. So these are the conservative numbers, right, Brendan,

906
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 1: that's three and a half two and a half to

907
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 1: three and a half trillion dollars of wealth creation and

908
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 1: none of that's the government, and none of that's difficult.

909
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 1: I'm so excited about the future, but I'm also frustrated

910
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:49,440
Speaker 1: because I think most of us are depressed. We're distressed,

911
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:53,799
Speaker 1: we're distracted, we're frustrated. We're living in a surviving mindset

912
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:56,719
Speaker 1: when these people you're talking about, the zero zero one

913
00:49:56,760 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: percenters are living in a building mindset. There's surviving, thriving,

914
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 1: that's middle class and building winning. I wake up with

915
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 1: a winning mindset. I don't even know what negative thought is, right, right,

916
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:15,719
Speaker 1: but that's where they are. They're in the building winning category.

917
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 1: We're over here in this surviving category. We got to

918
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 1: get out of it as soon as humanly possible.

919
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 2: Well, one of the ways you're helping people get out

920
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 2: of it too, is I mean again, we've got the

921
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 2: green socks in here. You know, we just came out

922
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:43,880
Speaker 2: of Financial Literacy Month. You've you've helped over you know,

923
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 2: ten thousand children here in Atlanta alone open up child

924
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 2: savings accounts, Like what.

925
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 1: Make the mayor by the way, Mayor Andre Dickens or

926
00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:52,760
Speaker 1: that Lance.

927
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:55,480
Speaker 2: Bottoms absolutely good friend, Like what do parents need to

928
00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 2: understand about, you know, making sure their kids understand financial

929
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 2: literacy because again to your point, a lot of these

930
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 2: parents are in survival mindsets, right, They're starting to change,

931
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 2: and I think what we start to see too, is

932
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:08,759
Speaker 2: is this next generation that's coming up where there's a

933
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 2: lot of real opportunity, especially they can get a head

934
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 2: start on things like for this stuff, you know, Like

935
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 2: you know, when I grew up, man, I had to

936
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:16,240
Speaker 2: go to the library and use the Dewey decimal system

937
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:18,239
Speaker 2: to go find information. Now, to your point, all this

938
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:20,600
Speaker 2: stuff's right here on the cell phone. And I think

939
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:22,000
Speaker 2: our kids are gonna laugh at us one day and

940
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:23,239
Speaker 2: we tell them I used to go on this thing

941
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 2: called Google and type in something that it would give

942
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:26,960
Speaker 2: me a bunch of links and I have to search

943
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:28,839
Speaker 2: through them and figure it out. Like now all the

944
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:31,239
Speaker 2: information is right there. I think for the first time

945
00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:34,800
Speaker 2: in almost twenty years, Google searches are down because of

946
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:38,680
Speaker 2: chat GBT because now you can get the information with context, right, Like,

947
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 2: so I think we're doing the work to like start

948
00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 2: to stam up this next generation so that even if

949
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:45,279
Speaker 2: it's not you know, the ones that are happening right now,

950
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:47,319
Speaker 2: like there's gonna have the ability to really lean into

951
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:48,200
Speaker 2: some of these opportunities.

952
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:54,320
Speaker 1: Right, yes, no, yes, everything you said. No, your children

953
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:57,839
Speaker 1: shouldn't be laughing. Our children shouldn't be laughing because they're

954
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:03,840
Speaker 1: missing a piece called critical thinking skills. Right when you

955
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 1: and I were growing up, you went to McDonald's and

956
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:10,239
Speaker 1: there were literally one, two three, there were numbers on

957
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 1: the cash register and the person had to add the

958
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:16,799
Speaker 1: numbers up. And then when later on, when we were

959
00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 1: in our teens, there was a photo on the cash

960
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: register of the fries. Because people weren't weren't math literate, right,

961
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 1: But it also made things easier. Now we're just going

962
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:34,400
Speaker 1: up to the screen and just punching the stuff in.

963
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:38,399
Speaker 1: We're doing the work ourselves, and those jobs that used

964
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:41,720
Speaker 1: to be behind the counter are gone. There's just they're

965
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 1: quality control people and so on and so forth. When

966
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:46,400
Speaker 1: you and I were growing up, we had to do math,

967
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:49,960
Speaker 1: longhand then I'm making this, I'm making this quick. They

968
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:53,200
Speaker 1: had the calculator. Then they had sophisticated calculators. I remember

969
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 1: I used to have this very long. It was very

970
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:57,080
Speaker 1: cool back in the day to have a big, big

971
00:52:57,200 --> 00:53:04,440
Speaker 1: calculator under that one exactly exactly right now, the computer

972
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 1: technology will do the calculation for you. That should be

973
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:12,960
Speaker 1: freeing you up to do higher level, higher frequency thinking,

974
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:17,440
Speaker 1: critical thinking about stuff that only you can do. But

975
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 1: my fear is that that's not freeing us up to do.

976
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:23,200
Speaker 1: That is allowing us to dumb down. We're just not

977
00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 1: thinking at all. This is the risk. We just stop thinking.

978
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 1: We stop being curious, we stop being nosy, we stop

979
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 1: understanding the world's changing right in front of us. We

980
00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 1: stop questioning everything and to understanding that. Love is work.

981
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:42,440
Speaker 1: Whatever you love is going to drive you crazy. You

982
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 1: love your husband, you love your wife. They want to

983
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:46,839
Speaker 1: get away from you at least once a month, right.

984
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 1: You love your children. You want to divorce from your

985
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:52,400
Speaker 1: kids at least, you know, you know, once every three months.

986
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:54,600
Speaker 1: You love your job, you want to quit from it.

987
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:56,239
Speaker 1: You know, I want to quit from my Brazioby Can

988
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 1: I'm the founder, right, you know? Whatever you love is

989
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 1: going to drive you. That is the definition of love.

990
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:06,440
Speaker 1: It's a struggle. People don't want to struggle. They want

991
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: it easy. That's a prescription for failure. So we have

992
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:15,640
Speaker 1: got to embrace the technology, but understanding the job of

993
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:19,880
Speaker 1: living is still here, Like there's going to be a

994
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:22,200
Speaker 1: risk here with the AI, which is different from the

995
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 1: other technologies. You're going to have hundreds of millions of

996
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:31,879
Speaker 1: robots in the next five to eight years. I didn't

997
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:37,319
Speaker 1: say fifty years. Hundreds of millions in the world of

998
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:43,880
Speaker 1: robots with armored and embraced with AI technology that are

999
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:47,520
Speaker 1: going to be doing things like being a waiter, being

1000
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:53,319
Speaker 1: a waitress, cleaning rooms at a hotel. I mean, you

1001
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:56,279
Speaker 1: see the little robots right now cleaning your carpet. That's

1002
00:54:56,320 --> 00:54:59,000
Speaker 1: going to that little round thing is going to grow

1003
00:54:59,080 --> 00:55:01,640
Speaker 1: up to be something that looks human and not.

1004
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:04,279
Speaker 2: I love you said that, because that's what I don't

1005
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:06,759
Speaker 2: think people really understand, right, is that even when it

1006
00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:09,480
Speaker 2: comes to AI, it's one thing right now when you're

1007
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:11,480
Speaker 2: doing on your phone. What people don't really understand is

1008
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 2: when you take a step back and think about how

1009
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:16,160
Speaker 2: technology works and how the world is designed. The world

1010
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:19,799
Speaker 2: is designed to interface with human hands in the human body. Yes,

1011
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:21,719
Speaker 2: we have doors that you got to turn the knob

1012
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:23,640
Speaker 2: on and open. We have stairs you got to go

1013
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:25,719
Speaker 2: up and down like, they're not going to reinvent that stuff. No,

1014
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:28,240
Speaker 2: what they are going to do is reinvent.

1015
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:29,800
Speaker 1: These robots without the attitude.

1016
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:32,959
Speaker 2: Without the attitude, they can do the same thing different.

1017
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:35,880
Speaker 1: So, so girlfriend who's at the at the at the

1018
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 1: at the restaurant, what you want my horder? She's out.

1019
00:55:41,239 --> 00:55:43,560
Speaker 1: Now there's gonna be a robot there. Well, and that'll

1020
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:46,600
Speaker 1: be just automated with the panel. But there'll be situations

1021
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:51,000
Speaker 1: where anything that the receptionists, anything that was that there's

1022
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:57,200
Speaker 1: a risk of lawsuits, drama attitudes like low frequency BS,

1023
00:55:57,280 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 1: that's gone. They're gonna just automate it. Be AI agents.

1024
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 1: This sounds like some science fiction stuff. I'm sing. There's

1025
00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:09,440
Speaker 1: gonna be in groups of AI agents doing tasks in

1026
00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:13,640
Speaker 1: your house, at your apartment building, in your parking garage,

1027
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:19,440
Speaker 1: in your office. There's going to neutralize a low frequency,

1028
00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:25,440
Speaker 1: low educated employed person who was complaining about already complaining

1029
00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:28,920
Speaker 1: about their low paying job. They don't take that off

1030
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:32,200
Speaker 1: your hands. Oh you you don't want this little paying job.

1031
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:35,080
Speaker 1: Don't worry about it. Right, there won't be a job.

1032
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:39,480
Speaker 1: The risk that we have in society now is what

1033
00:56:39,520 --> 00:56:42,879
Speaker 1: do you do with all these people? What does society

1034
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:47,360
Speaker 1: do when you don't need people to drive the economy.

1035
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 1: I don't know. Twenty or thirty percent of the economy

1036
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:53,719
Speaker 1: as we know it can be automated. And if you

1037
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:56,640
Speaker 1: have high school educated people. By the way, the biggest

1038
00:56:56,640 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 1: population of poverty are poor whites, not poor blacks. Again,

1039
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:03,120
Speaker 1: how do we become the postr child for poverty? Right? Yeah,

1040
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:06,879
Speaker 1: this is everybody's problem, and the President has told poor

1041
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:09,000
Speaker 1: whites don't worry about it. I got you, okay, I'm

1042
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 1: waiting to see that. I want to see that. By

1043
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:13,919
Speaker 1: the way, your audience will hate me for saying this.

1044
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:18,600
Speaker 1: I need him to win. I need the president to succeed.

1045
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 1: But there's not eight of them. This one. The election's over, right.

1046
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:25,480
Speaker 1: If he wins, we win. If he loses, we lose.

1047
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 1: Right now, I don't think that things he's doing right

1048
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:31,560
Speaker 1: now are going to work, which is why I'm writing

1049
00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:33,440
Speaker 1: articles and trying to put it under his nose and

1050
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:35,520
Speaker 1: trying to get it Secretary of the Treasury to listen to.

1051
00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think that a lot of stuff

1052
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:41,520
Speaker 1: they're doing are going to work. I've got a calculator.

1053
00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 1: I can do math like math doesn't have an opinion.

1054
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:48,720
Speaker 1: But I don't want to speak Chinese in twenty years,

1055
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:52,280
Speaker 1: I don't want to be speaking Russian. I'm not interested

1056
00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:56,120
Speaker 1: in speaking Korean North Korea. These are countries that want

1057
00:57:56,120 --> 00:57:59,440
Speaker 1: our way of life. We're arguing with each other. They're

1058
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:02,960
Speaker 1: trying to take us out these other countries. So some

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00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:05,920
Speaker 1: president should like some presidents you don't like. Some presidents

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00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:08,880
Speaker 1: are great, some presidents are horrible. We have a whole

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00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:11,480
Speaker 1: history of the range of these things. Good news is

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00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:14,200
Speaker 1: they'll be gone in four years or whatever if you

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00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:16,400
Speaker 1: don't like them. But this is what we have at

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00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:19,560
Speaker 1: the moment. But this particular administration doesn't even have the memo,

1065
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:23,200
Speaker 1: so they're not focused on the things I'm focused on

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00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:25,960
Speaker 1: about raising the bottom third and using them as capital.

1067
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:29,480
Speaker 1: Taking the bottom third of society, and as we did

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00:58:29,520 --> 00:58:31,640
Speaker 1: one hundred years ago with poor whites when they came

1069
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:35,919
Speaker 1: from Poland, and they came from Italy, the Jews, all

1070
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:40,520
Speaker 1: these groups that are now mainstreamed as Europeans were poor

1071
00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 1: whites who were stuck at the bottom of the economic

1072
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:46,360
Speaker 1: ladder and it needed that was called a New Deal

1073
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 1: to lift themselves up. And then you had the Marshall Plan,

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00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:52,880
Speaker 1: you had the gi Bill, which helped ninety nine percent

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00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:56,720
Speaker 1: white folks. You had the Homestead Act in the eighteen

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00:58:56,840 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 1: sixty two the allocated ten percent of all American land

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00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:04,800
Speaker 1: to struggling whites who who became stakeholders. And I'm not

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00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:08,680
Speaker 1: asking for a handown. I'm saying we have got a finanite,

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00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:12,760
Speaker 1: structured way that we don't go broke as a country.

1080
00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:17,080
Speaker 1: And God has a sense of humor. Now, my rich

1081
00:59:17,120 --> 00:59:20,600
Speaker 1: white friends need black and brown and poor white people

1082
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 1: to succeed to and this we have to work out

1083
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:27,920
Speaker 1: because right now, politically, that's not the message that's being sent.

1084
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:32,080
Speaker 1: There's a message of separation and division. And you know,

1085
00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:33,760
Speaker 1: all I know is that that's going to show. That's

1086
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:37,080
Speaker 1: gonna make the economy slow down. It's going to slower,

1087
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:39,800
Speaker 1: it's going to lower GDP. I mean, it's just math

1088
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:42,640
Speaker 1: to me. So after they get through with this political

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00:59:42,680 --> 00:59:45,400
Speaker 1: fight or whatever it is that they're doing in Washington

1090
00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:47,520
Speaker 1: right now, I think it can't last for another more

1091
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:51,680
Speaker 1: than a few more months. It just can't. Whereverbody's exhausted.

1092
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:53,800
Speaker 1: But then they're going to figure out, you know what,

1093
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 1: we actually need the other sixty percent of the country,

1094
00:59:57,080 --> 01:00:00,200
Speaker 1: right And that's what we need a business plan. That's

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01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:03,600
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to be ready for. We have got

1096
01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:08,840
Speaker 1: to figure out branding. Whether we're better together as a country,

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01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:12,800
Speaker 1: and I think we are. I've been to one hundred countries. Yeah,

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01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:15,400
Speaker 1: this country is racist in many ways. My second great

1099
01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:18,360
Speaker 1: grandfather was a slave, my second great grandmother was a slave.

1100
01:00:19,120 --> 01:00:22,160
Speaker 1: My great grandfather, RB. Smith was a sharecropper. I'm not

1101
01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:27,560
Speaker 1: immune to the disgusting abuses in this country. But I

1102
01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:30,960
Speaker 1: couldn't have become John O'Brien anyplace else. I couldn't have

1103
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:36,920
Speaker 1: become John O'Brien in Germany or France or Japan. There's

1104
01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:39,840
Speaker 1: no old ladder from a guy who has my complexion there.

1105
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:42,560
Speaker 1: I don't care how smart you are, maybe you don't

1106
01:00:42,560 --> 01:00:45,560
Speaker 1: go to the bottom. In the Nordic countries and other ways,

1107
01:00:45,560 --> 01:00:48,040
Speaker 1: they've got a socialist model, which is really a taxing

1108
01:00:48,040 --> 01:00:51,200
Speaker 1: model that allows you to the government take tax you

1109
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:53,800
Speaker 1: fifty to seventy cents of your dollars, so they make

1110
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:56,280
Speaker 1: sure that people at the bottom have food and health

1111
01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:58,040
Speaker 1: care and all that stuff. But you don't see us

1112
01:00:58,040 --> 01:01:01,040
Speaker 1: at the top either, So you're out of them, but

1113
01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:02,280
Speaker 1: you don't see it's at the top.

1114
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Speaker 2: In Europe.

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01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:09,600
Speaker 1: Uh. An inner city in France called Paris. You don't

1116
01:01:09,600 --> 01:01:12,760
Speaker 1: see us hanging out, not owning right in Paris. You

1117
01:01:12,760 --> 01:01:15,400
Speaker 1: don't see us in the top of companies right. Uh.

1118
01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:20,160
Speaker 1: The inner city in the UK is called London. We

1119
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:23,000
Speaker 1: can do this all day and all night. Black and

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Speaker 1: brown people are in the suburbs. They're there, they're out

1121
01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:29,720
Speaker 1: the way away from the action. Look at America, black

1122
01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:32,240
Speaker 1: people are in the hood. We are, We are right

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Speaker 1: in the inner city. We own it and we're giving

1124
01:01:34,640 --> 01:01:36,960
Speaker 1: it away. This man, we need like three episodes to

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01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:39,240
Speaker 1: cover all this ground like we should be. We should

1126
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:44,000
Speaker 1: be buying up land. Right here in Atlanta, between Midtown

1127
01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:47,960
Speaker 1: and the airport's a gold mine. Why are you? Why

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01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:50,720
Speaker 1: are you trying to rent something but people don't want

1129
01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:54,920
Speaker 1: you with money you don't have in a place you

1130
01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:59,200
Speaker 1: don't understand in a reality won't last. With money that

1131
01:01:59,280 --> 01:02:01,640
Speaker 1: you really can have for it. Why are you renting

1132
01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:04,880
Speaker 1: in Buckhead? I like Buckhead, it's great, But why are

1133
01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:07,160
Speaker 1: you renting in Buckhead because you got a doorman and

1134
01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:10,000
Speaker 1: all this floss and stuff. Take your knock it off,

1135
01:02:10,040 --> 01:02:16,520
Speaker 1: take your rear end to wherever you want. Midtown, south Hood,

1136
01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:23,480
Speaker 1: adjacent right, buy it, rehabit and rent it. Buy it,

1137
01:02:23,560 --> 01:02:26,080
Speaker 1: rehabit and live in it. You do that three times,

1138
01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:28,840
Speaker 1: you'll be a millionaire. Then you can go rent something

1139
01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:31,560
Speaker 1: up town and Buckhet if you want to for the weekends.

1140
01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:35,200
Speaker 1: Like what's wrong with us? Just do it. I can't

1141
01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:37,000
Speaker 1: say what I really want to say. Just do what

1142
01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:40,919
Speaker 1: successful folks are doing. Just model that again in where

1143
01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:43,040
Speaker 1: I started. If you hang around nine broke people, you'll

1144
01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:45,520
Speaker 1: be the tenth. I mean, what's complicated about this? It's

1145
01:02:45,560 --> 01:02:47,440
Speaker 1: an old Southern sec because you do my parents before.

1146
01:02:47,520 --> 01:02:49,480
Speaker 1: It's an old Southern saying. No matter how much I

1147
01:02:49,520 --> 01:02:52,040
Speaker 1: love you, my son and my daughter, if I don't

1148
01:02:52,080 --> 01:02:54,440
Speaker 1: have wisdom, all I can give you is my own ignorance.

1149
01:02:56,160 --> 01:02:59,240
Speaker 1: So we passed down bad habits from generation to generation

1150
01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:05,240
Speaker 1: of love. Out of love, we're ignorant on purpose.

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Speaker 2: First of all, John, if you want to have three

1152
01:03:19,480 --> 01:03:23,320
Speaker 2: more convers I'm personally I would love to have you

1153
01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:25,680
Speaker 2: come in here and talk more about this. I want

1154
01:03:25,680 --> 01:03:27,800
Speaker 2: to be respectful of your time. But as we wrap

1155
01:03:27,840 --> 01:03:29,720
Speaker 2: this up, the question I have for you is, we've

1156
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:30,600
Speaker 2: talked about a lot of things.

1157
01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:32,560
Speaker 1: We cover nothing on your list, probably.

1158
01:03:33,360 --> 01:03:35,120
Speaker 2: Is what we got we cover some of the stuff

1159
01:03:35,120 --> 01:03:36,680
Speaker 2: we're coming back. We covered a lot of things that

1160
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Speaker 2: One of the things I want to want to ask

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01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:39,760
Speaker 2: you before we get out of here is your name

1162
01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:42,640
Speaker 2: is John Hope, Brian, and so hope is a part

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Speaker 2: of this. My question for you is what gives you hope?

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Speaker 2: What do you see that that gives you hope about

1165
01:03:49,240 --> 01:03:51,320
Speaker 2: where we are as a nation is Again, I love

1166
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Speaker 2: the way you talk about it's not about you know,

1167
01:03:53,800 --> 01:03:56,320
Speaker 2: red and red and red and blue. It's not about

1168
01:03:56,680 --> 01:03:58,520
Speaker 2: you know, black and white. It is about green. And

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Speaker 2: I do believe that myself, cause again that's that's what

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Speaker 2: that's what helps the vibe, that's what.

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Speaker 1: For you.

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Speaker 2: Right, So when you do think like where do you

1173
01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:08,640
Speaker 2: see hope at? Like what gives you hope for the future?

1174
01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:10,640
Speaker 2: What gives you hope for where we're going as a

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Speaker 2: as a people and as a country.

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Speaker 1: This is God's world, brother, the lords is on the throne.

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Speaker 1: If you're religious, and if you're Christian, now I've got

1178
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Speaker 1: every on my risk here. I've got every religion. I've

1179
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:32,040
Speaker 1: got Christianity, I've got Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, ninety religions

1180
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Speaker 1: are exactly the same. He is a shocker for you all.

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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ is mentioned in every one of these religions,

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01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:41,000
Speaker 1: is mentioned in the Koran, more dis mentioned in the Bible. Jesus,

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01:04:41,560 --> 01:04:43,920
Speaker 1: by the way, money is mentioned more in the Bible

1184
01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:46,600
Speaker 1: than anything else. Two thousand plus mentions. By the way,

1185
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:49,680
Speaker 1: people don't know that. And the work and proverb says

1186
01:04:49,680 --> 01:04:52,120
Speaker 1: to be poors, not to not have anything, to be poors,

1187
01:04:52,200 --> 01:04:56,040
Speaker 1: not to not do anything. And lazy hands make a

1188
01:04:56,080 --> 01:04:58,160
Speaker 1: man poor. That's proverbs in the Bible. Who won't mention

1189
01:04:58,240 --> 01:05:01,760
Speaker 1: that part. But if you're a spiritual, and if you're Christian,

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01:05:02,360 --> 01:05:05,840
Speaker 1: and if you believe in the Lucifer the devil, the

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01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:08,800
Speaker 1: devil is a fallen angel. He's a punk. God gives

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01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:11,320
Speaker 1: the devil permission to exist. He ain't shit. Excuse me

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01:05:11,840 --> 01:05:15,840
Speaker 1: say it on your product. That's French. That's French. Let's

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01:05:15,840 --> 01:05:18,560
Speaker 1: go one step further. It's a light outside right now.

1195
01:05:19,240 --> 01:05:22,320
Speaker 1: Darkness is defined by light, not the other way around.

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01:05:23,200 --> 01:05:29,600
Speaker 1: Badness has failed goodness. Fear is much less powerful than hope. Okay,

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01:05:29,760 --> 01:05:32,919
Speaker 1: people say, John, that's nice theory. Put in the practice. Okay.

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Speaker 1: The book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell University of Illinois

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Speaker 1: study proved at five percent of positive role models. Every

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01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:45,480
Speaker 1: community stabilizes, not fifty percent, not seventy five percent, not

1201
01:05:45,560 --> 01:05:50,640
Speaker 1: even thirty percent. Five percent of positive role models. Every

1202
01:05:50,640 --> 01:05:55,240
Speaker 1: community stabilizes. The tail wags the dog. That's how powerful

1203
01:05:55,240 --> 01:05:58,800
Speaker 1: hope is. But here's a historic fact. Never in the

1204
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Speaker 1: history of the world, Old Brandon the world's five billion

1205
01:06:03,040 --> 01:06:06,360
Speaker 1: years old organism lifes four billion years old. Neanderthal life

1206
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:10,800
Speaker 1: two hundred million years old, modern human life one hundred

1207
01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:14,320
Speaker 1: and sixty thousand, two hundred thousand years old, the life

1208
01:06:14,320 --> 01:06:17,320
Speaker 1: of Enlightenment let's say six thousand years old. Jesus Christ

1209
01:06:17,320 --> 01:06:21,600
Speaker 1: three thousand years old in North America four hundred five

1210
01:06:21,680 --> 01:06:25,840
Speaker 1: hundred years depending how you calculate it. Never in the

1211
01:06:25,960 --> 01:06:28,840
Speaker 1: history of the world has been a group of bad

1212
01:06:28,920 --> 01:06:33,080
Speaker 1: people who've ever succeeded for more than a few years.

1213
01:06:33,680 --> 01:06:38,440
Speaker 1: They come, they tear up everything, The light shows up,

1214
01:06:38,920 --> 01:06:44,520
Speaker 1: the darkness goes away. They go into the dustbin of history.

1215
01:06:45,040 --> 01:06:49,240
Speaker 1: Caesar Throat was cut by his own senators Asama bin

1216
01:06:49,320 --> 01:06:53,680
Speaker 1: Laden Stalin Hitler, I mean go down, we can go,

1217
01:06:53,960 --> 01:06:58,680
Speaker 1: we can go down. The list they come and they

1218
01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:01,680
Speaker 1: go pot is over stated. Is expiration date because he

1219
01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:04,439
Speaker 1: controls the whole country. But he will be gone soon too.

1220
01:07:05,400 --> 01:07:07,600
Speaker 1: But Russia is a rounding era in the world. I mean,

1221
01:07:07,640 --> 01:07:11,920
Speaker 1: they're irritant because they're just that's the businesses being a thug.

1222
01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:14,400
Speaker 1: They're like the only gangster them in North Korea, the

1223
01:07:14,520 --> 01:07:17,240
Speaker 1: only gangster countries in the world. But I mean their

1224
01:07:17,280 --> 01:07:21,120
Speaker 1: GDP is a rounding error in the world. There are

1225
01:07:21,160 --> 01:07:25,680
Speaker 1: no consequence to anybody if they weren't the complete jerks.

1226
01:07:26,560 --> 01:07:32,200
Speaker 1: This thing called fear and evil is exhausting. People want

1227
01:07:32,240 --> 01:07:36,280
Speaker 1: the light, they want hope, But if you don't have hope,

1228
01:07:36,360 --> 01:07:40,560
Speaker 1: they're willing to take fear. That happened in Germany after

1229
01:07:40,720 --> 01:07:43,400
Speaker 1: World War One, when Germany tried to take over the world.

1230
01:07:43,440 --> 01:07:46,840
Speaker 1: They got their ass whipped. They had to pay reparations.

1231
01:07:47,400 --> 01:07:49,680
Speaker 1: Here comes this guy in nineteen twenty five saying, it's

1232
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Speaker 1: not your fault, Germany. The world's blaming. It's on you.

1233
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Speaker 1: It's not your fault, you're the victim. They put him

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01:07:55,720 --> 01:07:59,600
Speaker 1: in jail temporarily Hitler and then they but people wanted

1235
01:07:59,640 --> 01:08:04,000
Speaker 1: to have an excuse, they wanted to believe it wasn't them,

1236
01:08:04,280 --> 01:08:06,680
Speaker 1: And he rose up and people saluted him by name,

1237
01:08:07,600 --> 01:08:10,960
Speaker 1: and for a while it was like all hope was lost.

1238
01:08:11,200 --> 01:08:13,560
Speaker 1: And then one day he just died as a little, small,

1239
01:08:13,680 --> 01:08:15,040
Speaker 1: lonely man in the bunker.

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Speaker 2: Has its been a history.

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01:08:20,760 --> 01:08:23,080
Speaker 1: I just think we're let's not get over. Let's not

1242
01:08:23,080 --> 01:08:26,920
Speaker 1: get over exercise about this moment. God still says on

1243
01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:30,800
Speaker 1: the throne, this is his world and only we can

1244
01:08:30,840 --> 01:08:33,639
Speaker 1: screw it up. So we needed to sit in the light.

1245
01:08:33,840 --> 01:08:36,000
Speaker 1: All enlightenment is is you find the light, you sit

1246
01:08:36,080 --> 01:08:38,559
Speaker 1: down in it, and you respect the fact that God

1247
01:08:38,640 --> 01:08:41,040
Speaker 1: gave us ability to breathe, and he wants us to

1248
01:08:41,080 --> 01:08:43,480
Speaker 1: do something with our life other than just to serve ourselves.

1249
01:08:44,160 --> 01:08:46,720
Speaker 1: So we are the greatest asset and we are the

1250
01:08:46,760 --> 01:08:50,200
Speaker 1: greatest liability. You're not gonna deny your strengths. I mean,

1251
01:08:50,800 --> 01:08:52,360
Speaker 1: you know, you know, I don't agree with the president.

1252
01:08:52,880 --> 01:08:55,400
Speaker 1: I would acknowledge that he's a brilliant marketer. I don't

1253
01:08:55,439 --> 01:08:57,400
Speaker 1: think he's a brilliant man. I think he's a brilliant marketer.

1254
01:08:57,880 --> 01:08:59,439
Speaker 1: And I think if you go far enof the North Pole,

1255
01:08:59,439 --> 01:09:01,519
Speaker 1: you end up saying off, he will come and he

1256
01:09:01,560 --> 01:09:04,920
Speaker 1: will go. And but we've got to have a business plan.

1257
01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:07,559
Speaker 1: The rest of us have got to have a business

1258
01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:09,519
Speaker 1: plan for the rest of our lives, for the rest

1259
01:09:09,600 --> 01:09:13,080
Speaker 1: of what what? What are we here for it? Are

1260
01:09:13,080 --> 01:09:16,880
Speaker 1: we better? I said earlier? Are we better together? And

1261
01:09:17,040 --> 01:09:19,320
Speaker 1: in the meantime, let's see if there's opportunities in the

1262
01:09:19,360 --> 01:09:21,799
Speaker 1: middle of the middle of all this chaos that Washington

1263
01:09:21,880 --> 01:09:23,960
Speaker 1: is throwing out. By the way, there is there are

1264
01:09:24,120 --> 01:09:28,080
Speaker 1: immense economic opportunities in the middle of all this disruption

1265
01:09:28,160 --> 01:09:31,640
Speaker 1: and chaos that is being swirled around in Washington. So

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Speaker 1: you have to wait, you can get involved with it.

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Speaker 1: But also the GDP, your your show is huge. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's it's a it's known everywhere, but it's huge here

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Speaker 1: in Atlanta. It's the tenth Laren's economy in the whole country.

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Speaker 1: It's there's no Atlanta any place in the world. It is.

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Speaker 1: It is the Black Ossie and Harrietville in the world.

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Speaker 1: This this is Wakanda, right yeah, and we and every

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Speaker 1: race gets along. What's what's my point? This is where

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Speaker 1: GDB comes from, not from Washington. Go volunteer in your

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Speaker 1: school district. Go help raise your kids, right, be a

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Speaker 1: mother or father, not a baby daddy, baby mama. Go

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Speaker 1: help the school board, Go help the city council. Go

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Speaker 1: help your mayor get I mean, aren't you busy not

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Speaker 1: pay your car notes? Don't you a suit to excuse me?

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Speaker 1: Don't you have stuff to do? Like? Knock it off?

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Speaker 1: Why is somebody obsessed with what's going on the rest

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Speaker 1: of the world. Just if you just obsessed some things

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Speaker 1: I just mentioned, and then go buy a house in

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Speaker 1: the hood, rehabit, find yourself some place to live, get

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Speaker 1: yourself a will, get yourself an insurance policy, buy yourself

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Speaker 1: a house, start a business, invest in somebody else's business,

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Speaker 1: and do that pleasure, raise your kid. You won't help,

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Speaker 1: You'll be trying to find time to sleep. You know,

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Speaker 1: my mother always said, you never want to be the

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Speaker 1: old guy in the club. So before you kick me

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Speaker 1: out of here, I'm gonna leave. I'm out.

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you. I remember I was spend some

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Speaker 2: time in La one time, and I was at a

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Speaker 2: club and I said, you know what, Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 2: want to be those guys, but you are not that guy.

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Speaker 2: You are you know again, thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: coming out.

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Speaker 1: Do you see me in the club? I own it?

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Speaker 2: And that's right, you know what. That's the way to

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Speaker 2: think about it, and that's what people need to understand,

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Speaker 2: and we really appreciate you coming out. But more importantly, man,

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Speaker 2: I really appreciate the fact that, like I said, as

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Speaker 2: somebody that from your point started, you know, at the bottom,

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Speaker 2: and it's built your way up. You've not only been

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Speaker 2: on the other side, but you've you've seen, you've learned,

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Speaker 2: and you've kind of gone behind enemy lines and brought

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Speaker 2: information back and sharing it with folks. So thank you

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Speaker 2: so much for doing that. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: sharing this on button Nomics. We appreciate you. And you

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Speaker 2: know what that said, we out, y'all.

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Speaker 1: That's the pod like Capitalists Matter.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm