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Speaker 1: through this wild, crazy, beautiful world. In the studio, Houston's

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Speaker 1: King of Bleeding Johnny Dang wanted dove that Johnny dangerous, dangerous. Yes, man, man,

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Speaker 1: it's a pleasure to have you on the show. Appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: It's being my honor to be here. You know, a

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Speaker 1: John How does one get from Vietnam to the States, like,

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Speaker 1: how are you from Vietnam? Yes, from Vietnam. How how

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Speaker 1: Nothing that they says when it was that's the Resurrection album,

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Speaker 1: Who paid you this salary? Um? Actually I was happy

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Speaker 1: when you learn how to make jury, you have to

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Speaker 1: Of course I did um. Honestly, the most success I

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Speaker 1: because when they started, I buy very small kin tank carras.

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Speaker 1: But now question did you did you take out a loan?

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Speaker 1: I just show one, not what you sold one for.

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Speaker 1: I want to know what you called Israel? Find cats

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Speaker 1: right him to watch. So I'm like, Johnny, I want

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Speaker 1: Jamie just coming up? The solids washed right now to

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Speaker 1: I don't want to put no diamonds in my ship yeah,

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Speaker 1: and always supporting to man. Always. It's never been a

426
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 1: time where you know, I reached that from to him

427
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: where you know, not you know, didn't make himself available. Yeah. Yeah,

428
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 1: A lot of a lot of jewelers will come in

429
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 1: and they're tap into our culture. And once they're done

430
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 1: with you, and I ain't gonna say no name. Once

431
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 1: they got what they needed to get, they don't funk

432
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 1: with you no more. But if I if I called Johnny,

433
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 1: text Johnny whatever, first ring boss man, you know that

434
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 1: I think that that could be attributed to his his

435
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 1: longevity because you know a lot of there have been

436
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 1: a lot of celebrity jewelers and um not many has

437
00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: been able to stand the test of time like you have.

438
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 1: I mean I know that we we spoke. I just

439
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 1: alluded to you, you know, being you know, hands on

440
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 1: and being accessible in the community. But you know what

441
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 1: other like what other you know access do you think

442
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 1: you bring to the table that makes people, not not

443
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: necessarily makes people, but makes you a main state, you know,

444
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 1: in in in the hip hop community, especially because people

445
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 1: in the hip hop community really really funk with you,

446
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 1: because um, of course I love you, know what I'm doing,

447
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 1: and most most important thing is I'm deal with the

448
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 1: customer with this. I'm not to explain, of course, a

449
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 1: good deal. I try always trying to beat respectful, very

450
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 1: appreciate every single clan who spend money with me, you know,

451
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:01,240
Speaker 1: And in order to return back my shation, I tried

452
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 1: the best instead instead of trans the customer, I tried

453
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: the best to do the shortcut on the back end,

454
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: like file the manufacturer found a way to produce cheaper

455
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 1: productive so I can bring it to the table real

456
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 1: good deal because if you buy the peace regardless, you

457
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 1: spend money regardless, But how can what can I do

458
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 1: to give to you the same piece real good deal

459
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: that people cannot give you. So that's the way to

460
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 1: so appreciate the customers, this game beyond belief, Like goddamn John,

461
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: That's the way I do. That's is that touch like

462
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 1: symbol of this like that's that's why I build a

463
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 1: manufacturer too, with the in hour labor just like I'm

464
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 1: in said like I said this one. If regular jeweler

465
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 1: they don't have a set the in house, they pay

466
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: every single diamond like five six dollars. Butst things we

467
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: do in the house, I trained from beginning, so we're

468
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: paid by hour. So that's produced the cost of set there,

469
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: you know, so I can for the customer deal, he said,

470
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: beat the customer with the profits. I'm gonna beat with manufacturer.

471
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: I came to every single manufacturer, gave them big order

472
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 1: and make sure they gave me the low bottom price.

473
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 1: So just a diamond by itself, I buy thirty per

474
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 1: cent cheaper than market broker judge the price of you know, labor,

475
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 1: I said, a lot of labor. That's that's the cat

476
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 1: can I get off? You always got a better than

477
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: you see the ways you know, I tried to explain it.

478
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: That's that's the best way to appreciate customer, to pronounce

479
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: the best product was really good deal. Because I believe

480
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: every business I do, I believe on long term business.

481
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 1: That's the way to term that's coffee. Been spending for

482
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 1: years with me. You got a necklace, don't do that,

483
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, low key. I got this

484
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 1: from TV. Johnny brought us from TV Journey Johnny, what's

485
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 1: some of the what are some of the challenges you

486
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 1: face being in the jewelry industry? A lot of challenge, Um,

487
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 1: you know, to keep a business up and down. You know,

488
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: no ship always busy and slow, busy and slow. I

489
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 1: got the big stop because in order to DUDEO manufacturer

490
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 1: is tough. You got to you gotta people. But when

491
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 1: the business slow, you have to pay. I gotta like

492
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: and if any people right now in the building, right now,

493
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 1: right now, so the bill. The challenges how to keep

494
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: up to pay them on time? You know, minimum hour

495
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 1: had to be for the hour because the jeweler can

496
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:21,359
Speaker 1: just stay going work fitting to the hour like part

497
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:23,800
Speaker 1: time had to be four times you know all the

498
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: way they're leaving. In order to keep the good jewelers,

499
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 1: the kids stop. They had to get enough paid. That's

500
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:37,799
Speaker 1: a very big challenge when business low. You know, That's

501
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 1: why I ask you about that because I know a

502
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 1: lot of people just see the blame. They only see

503
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 1: the success. They don't know the struggle and they just

504
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 1: be like, oh, yeah, he did, I can do it,

505
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:54,280
Speaker 1: just jump right in and they get blindsided the challenges.

506
00:34:56,280 --> 00:35:01,840
Speaker 1: Did you guys experience any uh particular challenges during the

507
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:07,760
Speaker 1: pandemic lockdown? You know, how did you keep your seventy

508
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 1: five employees working during the lockdown? How did you have

509
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,720
Speaker 1: some of them? We have a fairy employees who left.

510
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 1: We're gonna got the long the left. But very lucky

511
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 1: most of my employees, you know, it's very very lawyers

512
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,880
Speaker 1: stay very long with me. So it's a good But

513
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:38,760
Speaker 1: I also try very hard to keep up the work

514
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 1: just to be testing, not work for them to be survised.

515
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 1: You know when when a's slow time, right, Yeah, so

516
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 1: I have to be right a lot of backup job

517
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:56,280
Speaker 1: just for the slow time. What do you think about

518
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: celebrities that where I faked jury? Um honestly said, you know,

519
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 1: jewels kind of like deshined the promotion for the The

520
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 1: Rapper and Uh, to me, I don't think nothing wrong

521
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 1: with it. You know, if you cannot afford the real

522
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 1: when you can wear something face, it's not a problem.

523
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that everyone can get by the real

524
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 1: one right away. You know, like me and myself, I

525
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 1: couldn't fall any until like thirty three years and when

526
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 1: it came here, so I just well, some fay one,

527
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 1: right So you even you were perpetrating the fraud. So yeah,

528
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,319
Speaker 1: so you're saying that, Hey, you know, ain't no big

529
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 1: deal man. You know you know well what you know

530
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 1: what makes you sleep good? Why do you like it?

531
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 1: But that don't try to be get something that you

532
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,399
Speaker 1: can affords and that you can a fall you feel

533
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,879
Speaker 1: comfortable with, You're happy with it. It don't matter. It's

534
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 1: real fail, you know, but imagine it's real fake man.

535
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:13,839
Speaker 1: You don't want to be walking around a fac skin

536
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 1: and turn not necessarily ship you got some fake on you.

537
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 1: That's a white kind of fake. You just like silver

538
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:25,839
Speaker 1: and diamond. You're different, you know. But I think it's

539
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: I think if you're gonna wear jewlry, though, uh you should,

540
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 1: it should be within your means. I don't think a

541
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 1: person should be going out of that way to buy

542
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,760
Speaker 1: jury that they really can't afford it. Johnny just admitted itself.

543
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 1: He said, hell, he wore fake jury when he was

544
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 1: coming up because he didn't have the money. So if

545
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:46,799
Speaker 1: it looks nice, but not a bit fake, you know,

546
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 1: something like if it looks nice. If it looks nice,

547
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 1: that's not true. If it looks good on you and

548
00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 1: you can't afford a damn you oh something that up there?

549
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,359
Speaker 1: Don't do it? Why not? Don't do it? If it

550
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 1: looks good on you. Let me tell you something. You

551
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 1: see that shirt you got on? That shirt is fake,

552
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:13,759
Speaker 1: but it looks good on me. See what I'm saying? What?

553
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 1: What fake? Is it? Though? It's just about the brain.

554
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: It's all about the brand and my brand. You don't

555
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: know what I don't. I don't. I don't advertise people's

556
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:26,479
Speaker 1: brands on my ship, so you can't. I don't either,

557
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:32,879
Speaker 1: but I could I could. Kind of cup of ice

558
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:36,799
Speaker 1: is fake too, man, This is not I I don't

559
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 1: give a fake. Whatever it is, it's fake. Do you

560
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 1: think the icens the waters? Ice had to be it

561
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: was ice at one point you had to be And

562
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 1: it's fake fake. Okay, back to Johnny. You mean to

563
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 1: tell me that all this time we thought you was

564
00:38:56,320 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 1: wearing real ship, your ship was fake? Dude? No, of course,

565
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 1: you know it cannot be faid if you pay, If

566
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: you pay for the shover I can make shover it's

567
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 1: but you pay for diamond. I don't give you c Z.

568
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:12,919
Speaker 1: Did you give me? You know what I'm saying, that's

569
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 1: a real diamond. Did you give me? Now? I say,

570
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 1: if you'mond, have you ever been have you ever had

571
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 1: any of your products accused of being unauthentic? I did

572
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 1: have a one time. Yeah, because um, I'm the jeweler, right,

573
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 1: So all the custom watches people want to set a

574
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 1: diamond in there, and uh, they just came to us

575
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:46,439
Speaker 1: and set put the diamond in there one time. One

576
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: I have a client who brought to me the AP wash.

577
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 1: God damn the AP but they just asked me to

578
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 1: set a diamond. So my job is set a diamond.

579
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know. We are dropping not verify

580
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: his real faith. That's a customer wash. You have to

581
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 1: be all know, that's customer wants. Yeah. And then we

582
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,840
Speaker 1: we got the picture of that wash because the diamond

583
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 1: we said very nice, you know, and we took to

584
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 1: get you the picture to you for the website. So

585
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 1: so buzzes. Yeah, they say, I said the faith was

586
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 1: I say, I explained to them very clear that this

587
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 1: is a customer wash. So when customers go to us

588
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 1: and like I say it, they even cannot afford. You know,

589
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 1: they just want the diamond. We don't. We just did

590
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 1: the diamond for the wash. I said, the diamond on

591
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 1: a lot of watches, and then we don't even verify

592
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:51,480
Speaker 1: some of them. We know, fight we tell the customer.

593
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 1: He you know, you know what'sn't not real, right, It's like,

594
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 1: I don't care. I want you said diamond in there.

595
00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 1: So I'm the jewelers. I'm just doing it. But that's

596
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 1: all the only time. It's tough stories. But the public,

597
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 1: you know, it's going to go to the public. I say, oh,

598
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 1: why you sell the faith wash in your opinion? You know,

599
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: these watches, this jury costs a lot of money, a

600
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 1: lot of these juries. Like if you bust down and watch,

601
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 1: it costs a lot of money in your opinion, m hm,

602
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 1: that is that a smart thing for a person to

603
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:41,360
Speaker 1: do is to buy bust down watch versus and watch

604
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: that it is already has the diamonds and that's that's

605
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:49,360
Speaker 1: that's manufactured by by well, that's designed by the manufacturer.

606
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: Let me answer that question for one man. When it

607
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: depreciates when you poke holes in the middle, I know

608
00:41:56,560 --> 00:42:00,719
Speaker 1: that I'm just asking questions editing. When you buy anything,

609
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: the depreciation either depends on what the purpose you buy

610
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 1: for it. You know, when you buy the diamond wash,

611
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 1: you know that we'll be depreciate, but what the proposing

612
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 1: thing is. You're meanting to buy the wash to buy

613
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 1: jury through to do promote, to get to promote. Just

614
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 1: like you spend money to promote yourself album or your

615
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 1: song on radio or TV. That's money is gone because

616
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 1: you have to pay for the radio companies to promote. Right,

617
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 1: But you buy the wash for yourself for promotion purpose,

618
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 1: you still benefit because you're still on the wash, even

619
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 1: the deduction, but it's still worked it. You know the

620
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 1: reduced right in there. But if you wear juries, the

621
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 1: same thing right now, you put two on the campaign

622
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:57,359
Speaker 1: and advertised, so that's money for the campag is might

623
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:01,320
Speaker 1: be gone. But you put two thou because social media

624
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:05,839
Speaker 1: is so big and you invest yourself, you promote, it's

625
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 1: my this work double than what you pay for. Right

626
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 1: If you spent two thousands on the juries and make

627
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:18,800
Speaker 1: a real nice one, they go viral on social medias,

628
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:22,400
Speaker 1: not much public city. You you spend a seme amount,

629
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:26,840
Speaker 1: you might not buy the same you know to to me,

630
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 1: that's with the like the artists, um, the hip hop community,

631
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:36,720
Speaker 1: and that's the that's a smart invest If you invest

632
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 1: your said, you got your jurry, you do a lot

633
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:42,800
Speaker 1: of promotion, you know why not, and then you always

634
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 1: can get the money back. It's not like just it's done.

635
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:48,879
Speaker 1: That's the reason. That's why I feel not a lot

636
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:51,839
Speaker 1: of regulate, but put a lot of more money on

637
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:57,239
Speaker 1: radio or TV advertise they'd rather get artists of jewelry's yeah,

638
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: because I should we promote something himself that you've designed

639
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:06,080
Speaker 1: jewelry for a lot of celebrities, a lot of big

640
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:10,080
Speaker 1: people people. Was a name of somebody who we may

641
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 1: not expect that you have designed something for? Of course, Uh,

642
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 1: Kanye West is the biggest. You know you mean somebody

643
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 1: I somebody who we might not expect. It's hard you

644
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 1: ever did a piece for Martha Stewart or somebody like that, Donna?

645
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 1: Maybe I didn't. What about did you do something for

646
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 1: you did something for Kodak Black? The hip thinking I'm

647
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,359
Speaker 1: good at big and you know, well know and hip

648
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: hop community says, and then then what I love to

649
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 1: do something for Obama precedents you should just do it

650
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:07,919
Speaker 1: and didn't send it to him. Yes, I'm gonna yeah,

651
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: he will here. Well I started TV Johnny Chain on

652
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 1: this ship. I don't know about that, but I'm I'm

653
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 1: sure if he sent him something like that. Yeah, you know,

654
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 1: you gotta send Obama something plain and simple. Man, he

655
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 1: ain't gonna rock, right, you gotta send in one of these.

656
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:34,919
Speaker 1: Send that to the president of these. Do you have kids? Yeah?

657
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:39,879
Speaker 1: I got to yeah, right, I sitting and and a half.

658
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 1: Are they working in the shop. No, they still on

659
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:46,440
Speaker 1: school right now? Are they blamed up? They go to

660
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 1: school and blame but planned to put up in business.

661
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: So my goal really to turn my kids to to

662
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 1: do business because you know, I read asked. Because Asian families,

663
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 1: you know, they start to keep it out early in

664
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 1: the story, like four years old, making transaction. That's how

665
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 1: my kids doing. Now for the summer, they get to

666
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 1: the shop, they work. They still that I pay them though,

667
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:13,279
Speaker 1: to be fair, so they's locking get to the shop.

668
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 1: And so they loved the business. They love the family

669
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 1: business and they want to shy away from it. They

670
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: kind of love it. You know how kid is you

671
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 1: have to and direct them when it was a kid.

672
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 1: Give them the ideas. Why did the benefits? First? The school?

673
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 1: Of course, you know you have to finish school, college

674
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:38,400
Speaker 1: and then and give them the goal because after school

675
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 1: you still have to go to the business. Whatever you do,

676
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 1: you still have to work to make to make money.

677
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 1: So business is the idea, you know, to give them

678
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:51,800
Speaker 1: the goal. So my daughter they started getting the major

679
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 1: and business major. So even she only eleventh grade now,

680
00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 1: but she takes a lot of business class. And then

681
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: see you doing the school. They got to like business program,

682
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 1: so she joined up. You know, so when they give

683
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:09,560
Speaker 1: them the idea from when it was a kid doing business,

684
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 1: he though the kid. I want them to do it

685
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:16,839
Speaker 1: and motivate them so they like it. That's the thing

686
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,279
Speaker 1: is a kid right now, you're very tough. You have

687
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 1: to train them from young and and show them what

688
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:24,840
Speaker 1: they like. If they don't like it, you kind of

689
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:30,240
Speaker 1: make them doing it. It's so tough, right playing ideas,

690
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:34,320
Speaker 1: giving them the options. They put them in a position

691
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:37,840
Speaker 1: and then so they can have options. Ryan, but I

692
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:41,800
Speaker 1: showed them how too late more earned themselves instead of

693
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:44,799
Speaker 1: just give to them. You know, that's why I made kids.

694
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 1: Do you give them an allowance I'm sorry. Do your

695
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 1: kids get an allowance every week? Do you give them

696
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:53,919
Speaker 1: money every No? No, you don't give him no money.

697
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:59,400
Speaker 1: They have to work for it. They for whatever they

698
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 1: expended for it. That's why I gave them an officer here.

699
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:04,359
Speaker 1: You want to spend more money, you have to get

700
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 1: earn more. They got their own a cow. Do they

701
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:09,839
Speaker 1: have a trust fund? Do your kids have a trust fund? Yeah?

702
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 1: Of course, but they don't know that. They don't. Yeah,

703
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 1: what's the most expensive piece you ever made? On the pieces?

704
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:24,320
Speaker 1: I do a lot of right now and make a

705
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 1: lot of diamond rings. The diamond rings like tanks that spens.

706
00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:33,800
Speaker 1: But the piece of bigger piece of make it, I

707
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:37,319
Speaker 1: believe the golden and five caras and five kilo goal

708
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 1: just one and who was that for? Just for one

709
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 1: of random guys? Yeah? Yeah, I had to make five

710
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:49,800
Speaker 1: kilo piece display at home. And what's something like that

711
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 1: cars that's back there? Like to SENTI five five don't

712
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: know it has diamonds in it? It just go starlet's go.

713
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:04,919
Speaker 1: But the average in hip hop pieces just like two

714
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 1: hundred thousand, two d thos, you know, two hundred and

715
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:13,919
Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars Johnny the it's not not like big

716
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:18,360
Speaker 1: diamond rings. Have you ever did a piece for somebody

717
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:23,799
Speaker 1: for like in the millions, anything like anything around that area.

718
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 1: It's not, of course the total expanding millions. Like Rick Ross,

719
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 1: you know what function was his jewelry spent more than

720
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:36,640
Speaker 1: way more than millions, but not in one piece like

721
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,439
Speaker 1: the necklace and the piece that just did for Ross.

722
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 1: You know that's counts a lot of money and individual

723
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 1: added up more way more than millions of dollars one piece.

724
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:51,439
Speaker 1: Did you do that piece for Rick Ross that has

725
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 1: like his face, it's a it's a facial piece. Oh no, No,

726
00:49:56,719 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 1: I didn't do that piece. I don't think he's still

727
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:02,640
Speaker 1: have that piece. Do you mean the faith with the class?

728
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:05,399
Speaker 1: I think he I think he had glasses on. Yeah,

729
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:10,680
Speaker 1: Ross alway in training in juries. You know, he always

730
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 1: come up with the new piece, new jury's. I don't

731
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:18,120
Speaker 1: know where he lived all his jury, but they have

732
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:21,360
Speaker 1: a lot of jurory collection. Man, what happened to that

733
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:25,279
Speaker 1: show you had on Vice dot com? You know what's

734
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:27,400
Speaker 1: going on with that? No, it's cool they to do

735
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:32,560
Speaker 1: like forfight stories advice, I think just for YouTube. And

736
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 1: they tried to ask me to do kind of like

737
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:38,880
Speaker 1: reality TV show. What I really don't want to do

738
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:42,320
Speaker 1: is just too much. They need to ask him in drama,

739
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:45,880
Speaker 1: you know, for the TV. For reality TV, you need

740
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:49,400
Speaker 1: to ask some more drama, some family size. But I

741
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:54,359
Speaker 1: don't want to put my family in in TV that. Yeah. Yeah,

742
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:57,319
Speaker 1: they want to know all your personal business and they

743
00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: need that drama, they need conflict, and that's really not you.

744
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:03,520
Speaker 1: That's You're not that kind of person. But I do,

745
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: I do believe that there's an audience for a TV

746
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:13,040
Speaker 1: Johnny Um what they call the reality show. I believe

747
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 1: it's an audience for that because you know, everybody, it's

748
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:19,719
Speaker 1: just not about the drama. I know, the drama is

749
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:22,759
Speaker 1: for a lot of these TV exacts, the drama is

750
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:25,800
Speaker 1: the low hanging fruit. You know, it's easy to just

751
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 1: throw watch some throw out a show till everybody go

752
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 1: at each other. The crazy part about it, man, You know,

753
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 1: like we always talk about how we want to see

754
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:38,840
Speaker 1: some positivity and all that kind of stuff, and we

755
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 1: frown on all of the negativity. But the number when

756
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:46,399
Speaker 1: the numbers come back, it's the negative stuff that get

757
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 1: all of the views. Ain't there something like a lot

758
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 1: of the negative stuff. That's that's what it is for me,

759
00:51:54,520 --> 00:52:00,200
Speaker 1: right now, whatever negative you do, this come out crazy news,

760
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 1: A lot of stuff. I asked on my own channel,

761
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 1: like I asked my viewers on Willie d Live on

762
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 1: the YouTube channel. I was like, you know, like till me, like,

763
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:13,200
Speaker 1: what what kind of stories y'all y'all want? Right? Sad

764
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:18,920
Speaker 1: like crime and punishment, had like uh you know politics, uh,

765
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:23,960
Speaker 1: you know, race all this type of stuff, right, and oh,

766
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:29,759
Speaker 1: celebrity news okay, just off. Oh and social issues right

767
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 1: so and and and uh uh family and relationships and

768
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:43,040
Speaker 1: then that was just positive news, right. Guess what the

769
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 1: guess what they said? What's the number one thing they

770
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:51,480
Speaker 1: wanted probably miss propaganda? What they said? They wanted positive news, right,

771
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:56,400
Speaker 1: that's number one? Number one? What's positive news? You know?

772
00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:01,400
Speaker 1: And Kanye is divorce? I guess say, I guess, I

773
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:05,120
Speaker 1: guess just just feel good stories, you know, like cat

774
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 1: got saved from the tree. You know, the guy working

775
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: at the restaurant, you know, was walking five miles a

776
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 1: day to work and the community and bought him a car.

777
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:19,880
Speaker 1: You know, that's what they say. But I disagree with you.

778
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:22,759
Speaker 1: What I disagree with I disagree with with with you

779
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 1: on that because I know for a fact that that

780
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:27,239
Speaker 1: ain't what they want because I post it all day long.

781
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:31,040
Speaker 1: Well you disagree with them, I because I just took

782
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:34,880
Speaker 1: the pole and man, that polis is not right, Willie,

783
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 1: because man, I can post some ship talking about you know,

784
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 1: black history and and and and in the condition to

785
00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:46,759
Speaker 1: black people, brown people and and and nothing. But if

786
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:53,359
Speaker 1: I say some ship like uh something crazy as fuck,

787
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:57,759
Speaker 1: you know, yes, yes, yes, yes, it's like it's like

788
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:02,160
Speaker 1: it's like we love stupid controversy or poking the bag.

789
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 1: That's as much game as Johnny has exchanged with us. Today.

790
00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 1: People are gonna get piste off at that and not

791
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:16,200
Speaker 1: watch it because it's it's it's educational. This was a

792
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 1: learning moment right here. People don't want to hear nothing

793
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 1: about ship they can learn about, you know what I mean.

794
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:25,680
Speaker 1: They'd rather watch something, Yeah, who's fucking who and who's

795
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 1: getting fat? Right as they don't funk about nothing else

796
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:33,919
Speaker 1: but who's fucking who and who's getting fat? But that's

797
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 1: that's why I even I told trade advice anybody to

798
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 1: read that be out of this show. I want to

799
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 1: do some motivate for the kids, teaching them like, hey,

800
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:47,759
Speaker 1: you have you have much more chance than me when

801
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:52,279
Speaker 1: you wanting American you know, and they say, man, noo,

802
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:54,800
Speaker 1: they're gonna to view that. They want to do like

803
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 1: you said, they want something like real negatives and they do.

804
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:01,080
Speaker 1: But you know, you got your own camera crew, man,

805
00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:04,800
Speaker 1: you gotta do It's just just go yeah, recorded and

806
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 1: chop that stuff up and then send it to some

807
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:10,759
Speaker 1: of the networks because networks are begging for content they

808
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:13,879
Speaker 1: all need. And Johnny, Johnny walking around with his own

809
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:17,240
Speaker 1: fucking theme music and ship too, all this ship happening

810
00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 1: camera and everywhere you go, Bro, you draw a crowd.

811
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:24,799
Speaker 1: People know you have an affectionate energy. You have an

812
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 1: energy about yourself that people appreciate. So people would watch you,

813
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:31,800
Speaker 1: you know, like, look, man, I've seen it all and

814
00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 1: I watch you when I see you when you come

815
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:36,440
Speaker 1: into the room, Johnny, you know what I'm saying. You

816
00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:42,520
Speaker 1: just you like the room. And that's something that man, yeah,

817
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:45,799
Speaker 1: it's something that people. I do believe that people would

818
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:47,560
Speaker 1: pay for that, pay to see that. And I'm gonna

819
00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:50,040
Speaker 1: tell you something. I don't watch television the last time.

820
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:52,360
Speaker 1: I don't even have I have a televigent vision in

821
00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:55,440
Speaker 1: my house. But you know, I haven't watched television at

822
00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:58,160
Speaker 1: my house and about eight months, I just don't watch

823
00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:03,000
Speaker 1: television Internet, you know. Yeah, yeah, that's like Slam. You

824
00:56:03,080 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 1: know Slam the watch TV. He watched it, as he said,

825
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:12,920
Speaker 1: it's how you get his news through Instagram. The news breaking,

826
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 1: news breaking, survived because it's so late. All the news

827
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:26,400
Speaker 1: come out, they go first. People can't wait because you know,

828
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:28,759
Speaker 1: the news has to have a structure and they have

829
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:32,440
Speaker 1: to they got timelines and all of this type of stuff.

830
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 1: And you can't just just jump anything on there, like

831
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:39,319
Speaker 1: something major major, they'll stop, you know, a major major death,

832
00:56:40,040 --> 00:56:46,080
Speaker 1: uh war going on something, a big big shootout, mass murder, okay, stop.

833
00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:51,880
Speaker 1: But everything else has to wait. And social media you

834
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:54,600
Speaker 1: don't have to wait. The social media doesn't make you wait.

835
00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:58,600
Speaker 1: Social media will let you take off, take off at

836
00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:01,160
Speaker 1: the gig. What you got coming up? Man? I know

837
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:04,400
Speaker 1: you shouldn't really do something with television though, you know,

838
00:57:04,560 --> 00:57:08,759
Speaker 1: because you know, I think I think that the world

839
00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:10,719
Speaker 1: needs that type of energy, and I think it would

840
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:12,920
Speaker 1: be good for people to see how you move around,

841
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:17,400
Speaker 1: not knowing that man, But people would love to hear

842
00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:20,800
Speaker 1: your story. Man, I think your story is immaculate. Man,

843
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:24,040
Speaker 1: it's fantastic. Appreciate that made me think we might do

844
00:57:24,200 --> 00:57:28,040
Speaker 1: something so story for the movie. But my coming up

845
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:33,160
Speaker 1: it's just more concentrating. I always concentrating business because to

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Speaker 1: keep it up, and there have to be with a

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Speaker 1: lot of energy in there, not only on production but

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Speaker 1: on some promotion on So I invest on crypto. You know,

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Speaker 1: crypto is so popular right now. I had to adapt

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Speaker 1: my business with the crypto. So I accept a lot

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Speaker 1: of people pay jewelry by a teddim big koy. Do

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Speaker 1: you have do you have some crypto? Yeah? We are

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Speaker 1: some that sometime I just kind of like spa what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, it's going down, you know where it's like

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Speaker 1: you say, you know, the market go up and it

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Speaker 1: go down. That's how just like it's life, crypto business, business,

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Speaker 1: it's up and down. So so I'm really take eventtl

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Speaker 1: a sept for my business when they're going up. People

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Speaker 1: didn't spend money with the crypto easily. I'm just ter

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Speaker 1: I'm just totally out of the crypto game right now.

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Speaker 1: It's just very risky. He's very very risky. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: uh here's the thing like with crypto, you know, like

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Speaker 1: you know, people say what goes up must come down

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Speaker 1: in crypto, if you own a good project, what goes

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Speaker 1: down must come up, will come up. And so I

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Speaker 1: don't spend a lot of time like people that don't

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Speaker 1: believe in crypto. I don't spend a lot of time

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Speaker 1: trying to convince him, you know, because I've done very

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Speaker 1: very well, you know, so I just I just keep

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Speaker 1: it moving forward. Man. You know, but hey, man, we

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Speaker 1: appreciate you, Johnny and Johnny you are a class act. Bro.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you man. You know, it's my big own up

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Speaker 1: to be here. How can people get in contact with you?

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Speaker 1: Never mind, let me do it at TV Johnny dot net.

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Speaker 1: You want to find yeah, tell him Johnny Dan at TV,

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Speaker 1: Johnny doc that TV, Johnny doc Net. I told you, man,

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Speaker 1: we love you, Johnny. And what's your Instagram? Johnny dangin't

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Speaker 1: cole Johnny Dane? And then uh you got Facebook? The

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Speaker 1: same thing, same thing, And then you got Twitter. Yes,

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Speaker 1: same thing, man, Johnny. We love you man. Thank you, bro,

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Speaker 1: Johnny Dane. Ladies and appreciate your kids. This episode was

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