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Speaker 6: All right, guys, welcome back, e y l UK edition.

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Speaker 6: This is going to be a very very special, legendary episode.

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Speaker 6: I got a feeling Anton Dixon, Bellot said, correctly. So

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Speaker 6: to everybody in UK because that's been a lot of that.

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Speaker 7: Relationships, man, it's all about war the money for sure.

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Speaker 6: So when she DM me, she was telling me she

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Speaker 5: Very similar, very similar. So very interesting.

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Speaker 6: Story really started started from the bottom eighteen years ago,

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Speaker 6: Now he's scaled it to not only an eight figure

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Speaker 5: So we'll get into it. But he literally controls the

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Speaker 5: We gets you.

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Speaker 7: Content studio with lots some of that. We've seen a lake.

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Speaker 7: So first and foremost, we forgot one business. We can't

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Speaker 5: That stuff, you know what.

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Speaker 3: That that's a that's a part of my past. I

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Speaker 2: But back in the day, like back in the day,

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Speaker 7: So you were an artist that just you know, we're

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so before that I was getting when managed to

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Speaker 2: So I was able to buy a bit at time.

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Speaker 3: So I was using profits from my music videos to

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Speaker 3: then eventually you retain your profit, so that once you

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Speaker 6: so you have you have East London Studios that's your studio.

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Speaker 3: Cinney House House that's camera and lighting rental company.

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Speaker 6: Create creative differences, creative differences lins. So when did as

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Speaker 3: So and I used the best rehousing company in the

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Speaker 3: the internet to get all this glass and hoard it

440
00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:04,000
Speaker 3: put in a back order because it was a two

441
00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 3: year waiting list. So I ordered them one by one sequentially,

442
00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,280
Speaker 3: I pre sold every set of lenses, and I think

443
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,800
Speaker 3: at the end, I think a few years down the line,

444
00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:16,160
Speaker 3: I think I turned over about a million pounds, right,

445
00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:18,399
Speaker 3: And this is just as a hobby. It's just for banter,

446
00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,159
Speaker 3: literally in the background.

447
00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:24,920
Speaker 2: And then I was like, oh okay, cool.

448
00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:27,159
Speaker 3: And I left it for a bit because the glass

449
00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,239
Speaker 3: became expired because vintage lens lenses, the glass runs out

450
00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:31,320
Speaker 3: because it's not made anymore.

451
00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:34,679
Speaker 2: And yeah, that was basically that.

452
00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:37,000
Speaker 3: And then when I revisited another lens that it was

453
00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:42,080
Speaker 3: more available, I sat down with the manufacturers, the rehousing specialists,

454
00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:44,679
Speaker 3: and said, guys, I think I want to do this

455
00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:47,000
Speaker 3: for real now, And they were like, if I can

456
00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:50,080
Speaker 3: do that as a hobby and make a million quid,

457
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:54,320
Speaker 3: what happens if I do it seriously? So everybody was

458
00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:56,359
Speaker 3: all is they called a big meat in big round table,

459
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,440
Speaker 3: all the corporates, all of the private equity guys. I

460
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:02,560
Speaker 3: sat them down, I gave them my idea and said

461
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 3: I need you to be my exclusive manufacturer, and here

462
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,760
Speaker 3: we are. And that that was the major turning point

463
00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:12,320
Speaker 3: for me, was that capital enabled me to make serious moves.

464
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,959
Speaker 5: So they made an investment in no, no, no, no,

465
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:15,400
Speaker 5: I know.

466
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:20,120
Speaker 3: The investment was then giving me an exclusivity arrangement where

467
00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 3: they can only manufacture these lenses for me and my company.

468
00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:27,159
Speaker 3: That was the deal there to X everybody out in

469
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 3: the world.

470
00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:30,600
Speaker 7: Wow, how long is the process of actually making a lens.

471
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,800
Speaker 3: It can take about three weeks to make a set

472
00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:36,320
Speaker 3: of lenses, maybe a week to make one lens. There

473
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:38,840
Speaker 3: have to strip it down that they have all these

474
00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 3: elements that have to be custom made, built, back, measure

475
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 3: the focus, engrave the lenses.

476
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 2: It's a big process and it's very very costly.

477
00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 6: So you got the whole thing, so you actually you

478
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:57,560
Speaker 6: have the production studio. Then you actually have the camera company,

479
00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:01,720
Speaker 6: you have the lens company. This is all happening step

480
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 6: by step and you just realizing well before you know,

481
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 6: you created your own ecosystem. Yes, or self funding yes, correct.

482
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 5: So the idea is.

483
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 6: The all money and strategy where you just you take

484
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:15,639
Speaker 6: profit and just reinvest it.

485
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 5: Correct. Did you ever take any outside funding?

486
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 7: No?

487
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:19,960
Speaker 2: No, not at the time.

488
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:26,520
Speaker 3: Like now, you finance rental equipment, I think with asset finance,

489
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 3: So you asset finance your order of your lenses, because

490
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,280
Speaker 3: when you're spending one hundred and forty thousand on a

491
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:34,280
Speaker 3: set of lenses, like for example, city House owns a

492
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,680
Speaker 3: set of cook anamorphic lenses across one hundred and forty

493
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,680
Speaker 3: k hounts, like you're not spending that out of cash

494
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,040
Speaker 3: because it doesn't make sense. Like now where I've become

495
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:45,480
Speaker 3: more financially literate, I understand about leverage.

496
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:47,480
Speaker 5: We'll talk about that the asset financing.

497
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,199
Speaker 3: So when you get to a certain point and in

498
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:54,320
Speaker 3: your accounts are sustainable, you use finance companies to buy

499
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,600
Speaker 3: equipment and then you pay it lack a mortgage, but

500
00:24:57,680 --> 00:24:58,919
Speaker 3: it's a lot shorter term.

501
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:00,399
Speaker 2: It's like three to five years.

502
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:04,879
Speaker 3: You need big, healthy accounts in order to justify the

503
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 3: spend and the recoupability.

504
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:07,880
Speaker 2: It's a lot that's years later.

505
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,639
Speaker 5: It's a lot to buy assets for your business.

506
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 2: Exactly.

507
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 7: The interust rates higher because of the termine so short or.

508
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 2: Not the interest rates exactly.

509
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 3: The payments are expensive because you're consolidating your repayment, your

510
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,359
Speaker 3: capital repayment. So with a mortgage, for example, you have

511
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:28,360
Speaker 3: let's say even let's give an a lack for like example,

512
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 3: one hundred and forty pounds apartment to one hundred and

513
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 3: forty thousand pounds set of lenses, or your apartment would

514
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,040
Speaker 3: be over a twenty five or thirty year mortgage stam

515
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,640
Speaker 3: whereas your lenses would be over four to five years.

516
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,960
Speaker 3: So you consolidate your repayment, which makes your payments monthly

517
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:48,160
Speaker 3: so much more expensive, which means that your your viability

518
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 3: financially proof has to be a lot higher to be

519
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 3: able to prove affordability. So it's quite complicated. It's not straightforward.

520
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,159
Speaker 5: Yeah, hundred and forty thousand.

521
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,840
Speaker 7: So what type of clients rented at least like big

522
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:05,880
Speaker 7: movie houses, Like who's the client profile and that that's

523
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 7: taking that type of investment for.

524
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,240
Speaker 3: For fort finance.

525
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 5: Well for those type of lenses, right, you said.

526
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,879
Speaker 3: Our clients would be any production companies that are that

527
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 3: are shooting serious productions. What Ozark was was a client

528
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 3: or the production team from Ozark bought a set of

529
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:27,719
Speaker 3: my Sinny Scribe lenses.

530
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 2: So that's not through Senny House. They actually bought a set.

531
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,679
Speaker 3: They liked the look of of that particular lens and

532
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:35,720
Speaker 3: the rebuild quality of that particular brand, which was my brand,

533
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 3: and I got contacted by the d P. It said, look,

534
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 3: we've got season three starting in like six weeks. I

535
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:46,400
Speaker 3: need just to fast track me a set. And I'm like, hey,

536
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 3: I watched that show.

537
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:53,160
Speaker 5: Let's make it happen already. Yeah.

538
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 6: So at one point, all right, so we this is

539
00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 6: all amazing, by the way, well what point do you so,

540
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,120
Speaker 6: another player is the real estate point. You've actually become

541
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 6: a very you know, healthy real estate owner in England.

542
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,200
Speaker 6: So where is this as far as you're doing all

543
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,119
Speaker 6: this and you're getting all these businesses, At what point

544
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:14,439
Speaker 6: do you say, Okay, now it's not actually just a

545
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 6: business place a real estate places.

546
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 3: Well sure, well, funny enough, I was quite inspired. I've

547
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 3: not told this story right. I was quite inspired by

548
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 3: real estate as a almost like a fallback. Obviously we

549
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 3: all have passive income, we all have appreciating assets, of course,

550
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:35,199
Speaker 3: but City Scope for me was almost too good to

551
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,639
Speaker 3: be true. I'm like, I've never made so much money

552
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 3: so easily in my whole legal you know.

553
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 2: So I'm like, this is crazy.

554
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 3: But because I understand that we're rehousing vintage glass. Like

555
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:50,200
Speaker 3: I said, finger glass will run out, finger class runs out,

556
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 3: have no product. So I'm sitting there thinking, right, I've

557
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 3: got about five to seven years to maybe turn over

558
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 3: ten million or something whatever.

559
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 2: Right, cool, But what happened when it stops?

560
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 3: So I'm like, Okay, everything else is running and businesses

561
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 3: are doing well, but I'm just thinking of an exit.

562
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 3: So every single profit that was made from Sinior Scope,

563
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 3: and I mean I didn't even buy a toothbrush, bro Like,

564
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 3: every single piece of profit from that particular business purchased

565
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 3: real estate.

566
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:20,359
Speaker 5: It was.

567
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,560
Speaker 3: That was the absolute plan because I wanted to compound

568
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:28,359
Speaker 3: the profits. So obviously, as you know about appreciation capital appreciation,

569
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 3: I'm like, if I'm going to put in five million

570
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,879
Speaker 3: of my own money in ten years on two percent,

571
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 3: that's going to be X to see what I mean.

572
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 3: So I'm sitting there thinking, so one day, senior scope

573
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 3: is going to stop because I'm going to run out

574
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 3: of glass. I need to be good, I mean good good.

575
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 3: So that was basically the reason why I entered the

576
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 3: property market so aggressively.

577
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 2: Because it was aggressive.

578
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 3: I went from a three hundred thousand pound portfolio to

579
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 3: fifteen million in.

580
00:28:58,880 --> 00:28:59,800
Speaker 2: Four and a half years.

581
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:02,719
Speaker 5: You know, what type of properties were you looking at?

582
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 2: Initially just what I could afford.

583
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 3: So it was just like one bedroom apartments or like

584
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 3: a normal small, three bedroom terrace house, just you know,

585
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 3: family properties. It was just entry level, you know, because

586
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 3: that's all I could afford at the time. And then

587
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:24,280
Speaker 3: I started understanding that the the advantages of buying blocks

588
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 3: of flats, you know, and from a maintenance standpoint, from

589
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 3: a just being practical, rather than having properties dotted all

590
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 3: around the country. I've got a block of twelve and

591
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 3: a block of ten. Now it makes the workflow and

592
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 3: the infrastructure a lot more simple to maintain.

593
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 2: So then I started buying blocks of flats.

594
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 5: So blocks.

595
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 6: For anybody in America doesn't know a flat is an apartment,

596
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 6: and so so you're buying like the whole block, correct,

597
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 6: And are you looking at areas like are you looking

598
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 6: at areas that's about to get gentified? Areas in the hood,

599
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 6: Like what's your strategy where it's like, all right, this

600
00:29:57,880 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 6: is a place where I want to invest in.

601
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 3: It was high yielding areas. So I have different strategies.

602
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 3: So for example, if I'm buying an already made block,

603
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 3: I'm going to buy it probably out of London, not

604
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:10,479
Speaker 3: too far. We're talking like forty five minutes to an

605
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 3: hour out of London, because that the yields are higher

606
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 3: in the suburbs. And yeah, so the appreciation is less,

607
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 3: but the yield is higher, right, that's the rental return,

608
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 3: whereas in London you have a lower yield and a

609
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 3: higher appreciation in value.

610
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 2: So you have to work it out like this.

611
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 5: You know.

612
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:28,239
Speaker 3: One of the latest things I've done, I've just done

613
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 3: a Victorian a four story Victorian house conversion into a

614
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 3: block of apartments in London in Greenwich.

615
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 2: Actually, but I've done that to build.

616
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 3: I would never try to buy it because the value

617
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 3: has been taken already.

618
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:40,239
Speaker 2: I am.

619
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Speaker 3: If I purchase already made block in like a conversion block,

620
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 3: I am the exit for the developer with.

621
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Speaker 2: Me, so I will do that myself.

622
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 3: So I was buying houses with planning permission, converting them

623
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 3: into apartments, remortgaging them. All the money comes back. We

624
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 3: go again, We go again, we go again.

625
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 7: Did you take that same approach that you with obviously

626
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 7: the production team where it was like all right, I

627
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 7: see the cameras, I know how much it costs. Aren't

628
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 7: that and slip it into your real estate portfolio was like, well,

629
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 7: this is how much it costs for construction. I need

630
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:12,479
Speaker 7: to become a construction team.

631
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 5: Is that?

632
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 7: Did you take that approach to accidentally you did a

633
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 7: lot of accidents.

634
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 3: Have an official construction team. I've got about five guys,

635
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 3: five multi traders. So multi traders means guys that can

636
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 3: do plumbing, carpentry, electrics, plastering. Yeah, so I've got five

637
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 3: guys on the books for my property company, ADB Investment.

638
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 3: Because obviously, when you do day work and you plan

639
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 3: it properly, you're saving. Couldn't you can say forty percent

640
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 3: if you was to do price work. So price work

641
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 3: is builders come in scratch their head and they tell

642
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 3: your price for what the job is going to be.

643
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,959
Speaker 3: But believe me, there's lots of markup in that profit

644
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 3: markup profit.

645
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they could be thirty forty fifty.

646
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 3: But if I'm control in the contractors or the sabby subcontractors,

647
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 3: then all that profit goes back to me because I'm

648
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 3: only paying the day rate. But I have to know

649
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 3: what I'm doing, so I had to become very savvy,

650
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 3: very quickly, so I could direct these builders to get

651
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 3: them to do the work that needed to be done

652
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 3: with me.

653
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 5: Yeah.

654
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 6: So yeah, So when you talk about mortgaging, that's kind

655
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 6: of like we call on the stage refinancing. Correct, So

656
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 6: you you buy, so it's very similar like you buy

657
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 6: a home, you're buying it through the mortgage yep.

658
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 3: Yep, sometimes or sometimes you buy cash sometimes.

659
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, So you get a home mortgage, any

660
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 6: special table mortgage, or you just do traditional.

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Speaker 3: Mortge, do traditional mortgages, which is a residential mortgage, or

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Speaker 3: a buyer to let mortgage, apply to work, buy to let.

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Speaker 3: So if you're buying it to rent out, you have

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Speaker 3: to declare that, which means you pay a higher interest

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Speaker 3: rate and you also have to pay a higher deposit

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Speaker 3: like investment.

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Speaker 2: It's an investment precisely.

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Speaker 3: So over here investment properties start a twenty five percent

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Speaker 3: deposit down down payment and a higher interest rate.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, what's the interest rate?

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Speaker 2: It varies.

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Speaker 3: It can vary from two percent to three and a

673
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Speaker 3: half percent if you go through traditional mortgages that's without

674
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Speaker 3: bridging and other stuff, which is another ball game. But

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Speaker 3: in terms of that, you're looking around two to three

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Speaker 3: and a half percent for an investment property.

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Speaker 7: Is it the same fifteen thirty year in terms of

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Speaker 7: length of.

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Speaker 3: The morget Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can ask for whatever

680
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Speaker 3: term you want up to thirty years, depending on your

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Speaker 3: age basically, But again, it doesn't really make a difference

682
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Speaker 3: on an interest only mortgage because you're only going to

683
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Speaker 3: pay the interest anyway, which means you'd have to have

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Speaker 3: another exit when you expire your mortgage, whereas of a

685
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Speaker 3: repayment mortgage capital repayment, you are bringing the debt down

686
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Speaker 3: so at the end of that term you will own

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Speaker 3: it outright if you don't refinance.

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Speaker 6: So your strategies fine blocks of flat in suburban areas

689
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Speaker 6: outside the city, purchase it, do some rehabbing, and then refinance.

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Speaker 6: What's the property has appreciated because once you do the

691
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Speaker 6: rehabs and it's going to go up with value, refinance,

692
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Speaker 6: take that money out, and then rinse and repeat and

693
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Speaker 6: then buy some more real estate.

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Speaker 3: That's one strategy. There's around four, but that's one strategy.

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Speaker 3: Another strategy is renewing leases. So when you buy an

696
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Speaker 3: apartment block with low lease, the lease that the property

697
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Speaker 3: is really really devalued because you have to have over here,

698
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Speaker 3: I think it's above seventy something years, seventy two, I

699
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Speaker 3: know seventy odd years needs to be a lease on

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Speaker 3: the apartment in order for it to be morkegable. If

701
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Speaker 3: it's under that amount of time a certain number, you

702
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Speaker 3: have to buy it in cash, which means you is devalued.

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Speaker 3: So what I would do is I'll go and buy

704
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Speaker 3: a flat in cash, go and speak to the freeholder,

705
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Speaker 3: put an extended lease on it. A standard lease here

706
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Speaker 3: is ninety nine years or be one two five, but

707
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Speaker 3: ninety nine years is standard for ninet nine year lease. Yeah,

708
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Speaker 3: that's if you buy lease hold property, not a freehold

709
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Speaker 3: property years.

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Speaker 5: So explain that what's a leasehole versus so.

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Speaker 3: A leasehold is basically you have a license to own

712
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Speaker 3: that house for a certain amount of time.

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Speaker 2: So every apartment will be a leasehold.

714
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Speaker 3: You cannot buy a freehold unless you own the freehold

715
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Speaker 3: of the block of the building.

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Speaker 6: Okay, So free freehold is when you own it free

717
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Speaker 6: and clear.

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Speaker 3: Well, you own the land. You own the land and

719
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Speaker 3: the entire dwelling. You don't just own that area that

720
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Speaker 3: the apartment with me, you can't buy a freehold if

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Speaker 3: you if you are buying an apartment, unless you have

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Speaker 3: a share of freehold, which is I don't see the

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Speaker 3: point because you can't do what you want.

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Speaker 5: Cop that's what I was thinking that.

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Speaker 6: Yes, a collective of people, Yes, yes, so okay, so

726
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Speaker 6: it's not worth much because you can't just buy a flat.

727
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Speaker 5: You have to buy the whole entire land, building everything.

728
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Speaker 5: Who me? You mean just in general?

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Speaker 3: If it's you can buy a leasehold flat, people don't

730
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Speaker 3: sell the freehold because, for example, the reason why is

731
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Speaker 3: that if you've got a block of say thirty apartments,

732
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Speaker 3: It's that you only set off that area every so

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Speaker 3: when you have an apartment block, you have what's called

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Speaker 3: a title, right, so everybody has their own title for

776
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Speaker 3: each apartment, which means you buy that title. So you

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Speaker 3: buy that apartment block and that just means that that's

778
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Speaker 3: your property. You have to pay service charge to the freeholder.

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Speaker 3: So who's going to clean the communal areas? Who's going

780
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Speaker 3: to so out the rubbish area outside and all these

781
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Speaker 3: things maintenance? So the freeholder takes care of that, because

782
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Speaker 3: a person that owns an apartment can't take care of

783
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Speaker 3: all of the areas that service that block, which is

784
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Speaker 3: the reason why you only have a leasehold.

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Speaker 5: It sounds like collapse pretty much. Ninety nine years.

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Speaker 2: Ninety nine years.

787
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Speaker 3: So if a property is under seventy years, you can't

788
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Speaker 3: get a mortgage on it at all. You have to

789
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Speaker 3: buy it in cash, or it might be sixty seven years,

790
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 3: like I'm not too sure, but you have to buy

791
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Speaker 3: it in cash, or you have to get renew the lease.

792
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Speaker 3: Renewing the lease could cost you twenty five thousand pounds

793
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Speaker 3: to renew the lease back up to ninety nine years.

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Speaker 2: Then you can get a mortgage on it.

795
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Speaker 3: But then the value increases crazy, right, So I will

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Speaker 3: buy an apartment with a low lease. I'll go on

797
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Speaker 3: an auction. It says low lease apartment. So if some

798
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Speaker 3: things worth for it. I give an example right. I

799
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Speaker 3: bought a flat. This is my first low lease purchase

800
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Speaker 3: a few years ago, No quite a few years ago.

801
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Speaker 3: So the value of it was one hundred and forty thousand.

802
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 3: It's a one bedroom flat in Kent, one hundred and

803
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:57,440
Speaker 3: forty thousand. I purchased it for sixty seven thousand on

804
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 3: an auction because it was rundown, so that brings the

805
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 3: value down. Already run down, I mean it was like distressed. Yeah,

806
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Speaker 3: and the lease was like fifty years. So I've spent

807
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Speaker 3: ten pounds on a renovation. I have spent twenty two

808
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 3: thousand on a ninety nine year lease extension. So now

809
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Speaker 3: I'm in for like eighty or eighty five thousand or so.

810
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Speaker 3: And then I re mortgaged a seventy five percent loan

811
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Speaker 3: to value on one hundred and forty thousand, right, So

812
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:31,359
Speaker 3: then I got back every single penny got paid on top,

813
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 3: still had twenty five percent equity in the property, and

814
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Speaker 3: now I have a cash flow and asset.

815
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Speaker 2: Basically, it's a free flat and I'm paid to take it.

816
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,400
Speaker 7: So when you you see the plate when you extended

817
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:43,839
Speaker 7: the lease, obviously you say it was low lease.

818
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Speaker 5: It was fifty years.

819
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Speaker 7: Are you extending it just so it gets to the

820
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Speaker 7: ninety nine Like I'm going to extend it for forty

821
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Speaker 7: nine years, so you.

822
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Speaker 3: Have your your slitst it lets you know what the

823
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 3: cost will be. But I think I believe the closer

824
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Speaker 3: it is to ninety nine years, the cheaper it is, basically,

825
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 3: but you need to get above that threshold so you

826
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Speaker 3: can mortgage it. So I could not get a mortgage

827
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Speaker 3: until I was above that threshold. Right, And you speak

828
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:08,359
Speaker 3: to before you purchase. I advise people speak to your

829
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Speaker 3: free speak to the freeholder first, work out your numbers.

830
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Speaker 3: Make sure you can get through to the freeholder, because

831
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 3: if you buy a property and you can't get through

832
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 3: to the freeholder, how.

833
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 2: Can you increase the lease?

834
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 3: Then you have to go to court and there's a

835
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Speaker 3: mandatory process that gets your lease extended automatically, but that

836
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 3: takes some time. So for anyone out there that's trying

837
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 3: to copy that particular strategy that I explained, make sure

838
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 3: you speak to your freeholder and work and make sure

839
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Speaker 3: they're contactable to negotiate your lease before purchase.

840
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Speaker 2: Then you got your exit quicker a whole.

841
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 5: Lot of game. What's the other one?

842
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 3: As you said, just buying down distressed properties, like for example,

843
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:46,359
Speaker 3: the four million pound country estate I bought is it man?

844
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Speaker 2: That was like black Friday like, but.

845
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Speaker 5: I saw the acres.

846
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Speaker 6: I don't know exactly where it is, but I know obviously,

847
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 6: you know, the UK real estate is expensive, so I'm

848
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Speaker 6: like four million that seemed like it's kind of it

849
00:41:58,280 --> 00:41:59,359
Speaker 6: could be kind of cheap.

850
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Speaker 3: It was that the main mansion was very distressed, very outdated,

851
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 3: and it's currently undergoing a two million pound renovation and extension.

852
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 3: I'm adding an east and west wing to it. I'm

853
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:13,840
Speaker 3: adding rooftop terraces, so when you come out the bedrooms

854
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,839
Speaker 3: the French stores go out onto rooftop terraces. The main

855
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 3: swim pool building is now being connected to the main

856
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 3: house and refurbing all the fourteen outbuildings, adding a second

857
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 3: private road, adding serious infrastructure, you know, and I'll probably

858
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 3: getting eight million pound valuation once I'm finished, and so

859
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 3: that that's going to be all done within a year.

860
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Speaker 2: In a year, I'm nine months in The.

861
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Speaker 6: Play with that is to have that as kind of

862
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 6: like your headquarters for content.

863
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 3: Correct, it will be a hospitality venue, an event space

864
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Speaker 3: yet events hospitality galas you know it will be be

865
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Speaker 3: an HQ for me, but also because of the vast

866
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:54,400
Speaker 3: space it will be.

867
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Speaker 2: I want to do it, you know, be like a

868
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Speaker 2: filming village.

869
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Speaker 3: So on some of the fields and a lot of

870
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Speaker 3: the acres at the back, I want to be building

871
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 3: some big stages so you can actually do like East

872
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:06,760
Speaker 3: London Studios times twenty, you know, all the big massive stages.

873
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:08,360
Speaker 2: You've got backlot for days.

874
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Speaker 3: You know, you can shoot saving private Ryan to you know,

875
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Speaker 3: Game of fronts, you know, with the fields.

876
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Speaker 7: So on the two acres, we're talking about like lots

877
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 7: similar like we said with Tyler Perry where he has

878
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Speaker 7: the studios and there's a bunch of lots and MA

879
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 7: can shoot shows on it. But not only can you

880
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 7: shoot your own shows, but production companies to come in

881
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 7: and right the space.

882
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 3: This would be a commercial It would be a commercial

883
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:27,959
Speaker 3: location for sure.

884
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 7: So like companies like Viacom could say we want to

885
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 7: shoot the show.

886
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 3: On lat number twelve, we want to be there for

887
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 3: two years or whatever, you know, or you have like

888
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 3: a period drama TV, period drama.

889
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:42,720
Speaker 2: That wants that it's a Georgian mansion.

890
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 3: So it's very like Palacey, you know, and they might

891
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:48,759
Speaker 3: say right, we want to shoot a season of I

892
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 3: don't know, Bridgeton or something which you know for the

893
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:52,800
Speaker 3: next twelve months.

894
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:56,319
Speaker 2: Cool take that then, you know, So it will be that.

895
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 3: But obviously there's there's a lot of red type in

896
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 3: these areas. So it's a stage by stage process. For now,

897
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 3: it's renovate the property, the main property, because that's what

898
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:08,040
Speaker 3: I do as a developer. I will get probably every

899
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 3: penny back, yeah, and it will be an in and

900
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:13,800
Speaker 3: out for me and then then then I'll put the

901
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 3: rest of the money into making the rest of the

902
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 3: infrastructure around the lines.

903
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 2: But we're shooting there already, so things happen.

904
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:22,839
Speaker 6: You say you get every penny out on a refile, absolutely,

905
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 6: what do you call the refile again?

906
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 2: Remortgage?

907
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 7: Remortgage that same thing, exactly the same thing when you

908
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:30,479
Speaker 7: said that obviously, course before by the time you finished, right, event,

909
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:32,960
Speaker 7: it's going to be an eight million dollars evaluation. Is

910
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 7: that with the lots already built or no, no, no no,

911
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:37,239
Speaker 7: But when the lots get built, Ye, that's not a thing.

912
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 7: We're talking maybe thirty four ye.

913
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're just talking about what's there.

914
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 7: Yeah, right now, what's what's what's that, like, what's the

915
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 7: cost to build an actual lot like we see them

916
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 7: We travel to La a bunch of times and we

917
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 7: see the size of massive amount of production that goes

918
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:55,360
Speaker 7: into just one lot. How much would it like on average,

919
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:57,399
Speaker 7: you think that that's going to cause to probably put

920
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:59,320
Speaker 7: like eight lots.

921
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 3: It's it's miss millions. It's telephone numbers for sure. Yeah, it's.

922
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 5: Like that, you know as a fact.

923
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:15,799
Speaker 6: So all right, now you have this vision, what's the

924
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 6: plan actually implc I'm assuming it's going.

925
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:19,240
Speaker 5: Like a lot of staff.

926
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:22,320
Speaker 6: You gotta have like security, you gotta have like this

927
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:23,320
Speaker 6: a whole operation.

928
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 5: So you have that plan in place yet.

929
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:30,280
Speaker 3: Already semi semi so as I said this in stages

930
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 3: because right now there's a huge mortgage on this estate

931
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,000
Speaker 3: and the maintenance costs, I mean, little things you don't

932
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 3: think about because it's so green, it's in the country.

933
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 3: My gardening costs, man, are like for gardeners. Yeah, it's

934
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 3: just it's unprecedented. It thousands and thousands of pounds a

935
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 3: month just for my gardeners. And there's no value in that.

936
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 3: I'm just keeping the place from overgrowing, you know. My

937
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 3: tree surgeon cutting down trees branches, bro.

938
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 2: It's just mad.

939
00:45:58,600 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 3: That's right on.

940
00:45:59,120 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 2: The money has gone.

941
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 3: It's like it's like, get this place up and running quick,

942
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 3: get that money back, get some primary projects in there.

943
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 3: Then while that's happening, I can be somewhere else in

944
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 3: some other acres, building the lots, you know, and that

945
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:14,040
Speaker 3: stuff can be running over there, so it doesn't interfere.

946
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 7: You said, you said those things are right offs because

947
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 7: obviously it's not your primary residence.

948
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 5: No, it's a studio. So it's just a studio. But

949
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:22,319
Speaker 5: I mean he has to mention part of it.

950
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 7: So all these things, that gardening, they're going to be

951
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 7: right offs on from the property.

952
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course. But when I say right off, there's

953
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 3: two right off. There's tax right off. But I mean

954
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 3: right off as in the money is not an investment.

955
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 3: It's not recoupable. It's what I mean as a running cost.

956
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 3: But of course that will also be written off in

957
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 3: that sense.

958
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.

959
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 5: So what made you pick that? How far is the

960
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 5: town from like here.

961
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:52,400
Speaker 3: From that area it's about an hour and twenty minutes,

962
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 3: an hour and twenty five minutes.

963
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:54,360
Speaker 2: It's not crazy.

964
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 5: What made you?

965
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:58,359
Speaker 6: You just see something online where it's like, oh, that's

966
00:46:58,360 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 6: a cheap property.

967
00:46:59,040 --> 00:46:59,840
Speaker 5: Let me just get it.

968
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:01,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I'm always looking for where I can add

969
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 3: value and and and and recoup, you know, to re

970
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:08,880
Speaker 3: exit the money. And that was an opportunity. But at

971
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 3: the same time, I had my eye on an expansion.

972
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:13,719
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm like, Okay, I'm doing well, but how

973
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 3: do I do better in terms of the film industry.

974
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 3: And this is an opportunity, you know, for me to

975
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:23,040
Speaker 3: go into also my next venture, which is actually finally

976
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:24,880
Speaker 3: making feature films, you know, finally.

977
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:27,360
Speaker 2: So I had my eyes.

978
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:30,399
Speaker 3: Slightly from a property hat on and also a film

979
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:33,760
Speaker 3: industry and they just married perfectly for this particular acquisition.

980
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 5: So you're going into a movie industry.

981
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 6: How has it been, Like, have you made relationships with

982
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 6: like people in the music in the movie business here

983
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 6: in London?

984
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 5: Is it like old boys club? Like?

985
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:52,480
Speaker 6: How has that been as far as you're moving in

986
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:54,239
Speaker 6: from the music side to the movies.

987
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:57,239
Speaker 5: Have you been welcomed? Like how's your transition going?

988
00:47:57,400 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 2: I think.

989
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 3: With regards to the higher end of the film industry period,

990
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:06,919
Speaker 3: and that when I say higher end, it's only we're

991
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:10,240
Speaker 3: only really talking about commercials and movies, right, It's definitely

992
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 3: old old boys club.

993
00:48:11,239 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 2: It's controlled by a particular type, right.

994
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 5: Correct.

995
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:26,959
Speaker 3: And you know, I'm not looking to be accepted, which

996
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 3: is the reason why I'm just doing me. I'm creating

997
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:32,800
Speaker 3: my own opportunities because I'd be old and gray still

998
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 3: making tea if I was trying to get into that

999
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:39,359
Speaker 3: side of things looking for an opportunity, you know.

1000
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 2: So it's tough.

1001
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:44,759
Speaker 3: It's tough, and that's why you know, the movie that

1002
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:47,840
Speaker 3: my first movie that I'm creating now is done funded

1003
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:49,960
Speaker 3: by you know, myself and a partner of mine. So

1004
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:54,399
Speaker 3: we're doing this ourselves. We're not looking for funding. That's

1005
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:55,920
Speaker 3: always quite difficult, you know.

1006
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:58,279
Speaker 7: I guess on the other end of it would be

1007
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 7: obviously you're trailblazing. So are you seeing especially young young

1008
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 7: people of color? Are they following in your footsteps? Are

1009
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 7: you mentoring them? Do you see them now becoming the

1010
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 7: place for becoming the place where they can actually develop

1011
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 7: their ideas and develop the production for some of the

1012
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 7: shows that they have.

1013
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:22,239
Speaker 3: Sure? Well, I mean I'd like to hope that they're

1014
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 3: using me and my example to give them some faith

1015
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:27,640
Speaker 3: that the doors that they're knocking on the aren't open

1016
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 3: and they're still away in. You know, a lot of

1017
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:31,880
Speaker 3: people have made a lot of contact with me, especially

1018
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:35,439
Speaker 3: with a lot of my recent publications that have gone

1019
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:38,360
Speaker 3: on internationally. A lot of people are contacting me, if

1020
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 3: you know, young black males to be particularly to be

1021
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:45,799
Speaker 3: as an example, and they're like, hey, man, like, I've

1022
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 3: received some messages like, dude, I was about to move

1023
00:49:49,560 --> 00:50:00,160
Speaker 3: into some some really uncanny activities, you know, because I

1024
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 3: like that, you know, because they're like, this is not

1025
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:05,239
Speaker 3: working for me. And then they're like, but I've seen

1026
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:07,879
Speaker 3: what you're doing, and I'm like, oh, like, you look

1027
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:11,719
Speaker 3: like me. So I'm a stick at this and that

1028
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 3: just gives me so much joy, man Like, the amount

1029
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:18,400
Speaker 3: of messages and people are cheering me on and likewise,

1030
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:21,440
Speaker 3: I'm just answering questions, man Like. I spend most of

1031
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:24,840
Speaker 3: the time in my DMS, and that's it's It's almost

1032
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 3: painstaking because I can't get no work done because I'm

1033
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:29,160
Speaker 3: constantly messaging people. But I want to do it because

1034
00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 3: I feel I've put myself out here. I need so

1035
00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:34,000
Speaker 3: now if I'm going to be a beacon, I need

1036
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 3: to I need to keep it going. So I'm always

1037
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:38,360
Speaker 3: asking people about what they're doing and giving them advice,

1038
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:40,279
Speaker 3: and people are asking me every type of question you

1039
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:42,719
Speaker 3: could imagine, you know, and I'm doing my best to

1040
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:43,880
Speaker 3: answer and be encouraging.

1041
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 8: You know.

1042
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 3: I don't want to feel like I'm I'm not accessible,

1043
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 3: do you see what I mean? There has to be

1044
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 3: a reason how that happens, within reason. But I'm trying

1045
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:57,360
Speaker 3: to give advice and mentor within reason.

1046
00:50:57,360 --> 00:50:58,239
Speaker 2: At some stage I'll do.

1047
00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:01,320
Speaker 3: A mentor and program that needs to be coordinated properly,

1048
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:03,239
Speaker 3: because there is a lot of people that reach out

1049
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 3: and it's overwhelming. So I'm in the process of constructing

1050
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:09,879
Speaker 3: some type of mental and program that might probably kick

1051
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:11,440
Speaker 3: off at the end of the year. It needs to

1052
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 3: be a proper program. But for now, man, people hit

1053
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 3: me up with my dms. I'm always there to give advice,

1054
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:21,439
Speaker 3: to give opportunities if I can. Obviously, bearing in mind,

1055
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:24,400
Speaker 3: our industry in the film is quite skilled sector, so

1056
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:26,440
Speaker 3: you have to actually know what you're doing unless you

1057
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:28,400
Speaker 3: want to come and be a runner, and not everybody

1058
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:30,560
Speaker 3: wants to do that, you know. I still think it's

1059
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 3: a good idea to do it, but some people, you know,

1060
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:35,879
Speaker 3: egos pride, they're not on it, so not as many

1061
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:38,840
Speaker 3: people are coming through my doors as I would have hoped,

1062
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 3: you know.

1063
00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:42,840
Speaker 2: So it's one of those things.

1064
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 6: So all right, you learned a lot on the fly,

1065
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 6: I'm assuming as far as you know on the music side,

1066
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:55,879
Speaker 6: videos and then you know, having the cameras and then

1067
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:56,720
Speaker 6: the real estate.

1068
00:51:57,320 --> 00:51:59,400
Speaker 5: Is this all self taught or did you have a

1069
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 5: mentor how did you learn?

1070
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:02,279
Speaker 2: I didn't have a mental so you just figured it.

1071
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:03,840
Speaker 5: Out as you as you go. I figured out, like

1072
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 5: this is a good idea. Let me just dive in

1073
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 5: to learn as much as I pass a.

1074
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 2: Lot of it as instincts.

1075
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 3: I would say, a lot of people ask me and

1076
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 3: why you like, how did you become this person? How

1077
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 3: did you achieve so much? Your one human one guy,

1078
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:21,279
Speaker 3: a black guy. I just called it out in a

1079
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 3: country that isn't designed for us to elevate. That's the facts.

1080
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:30,799
Speaker 3: Let's just call a spade a spade, right, But what

1081
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:35,040
Speaker 3: I think separates me is consistency. Everybody has a good day.

1082
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:37,880
Speaker 3: I say, let's say figuratively, right, a good day in

1083
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 3: the office. Everybody is on form. They wake up one

1084
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 3: day and they have a good day where they're motivated,

1085
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:45,080
Speaker 3: they're buzzy, and they're on it. They're constructive, but not

1086
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:49,479
Speaker 3: many people can sustain that, and that's the difference. Yeah,

1087
00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:51,360
Speaker 3: it's for me to do what I do is not

1088
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:54,239
Speaker 3: sure some people, it's really painful for them.

1089
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:57,120
Speaker 2: Dude, this is just wired into my head.

1090
00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:01,319
Speaker 3: So like I have to stop myself from working and

1091
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:05,359
Speaker 3: thinking and strategizing and take time away, you know, as

1092
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 3: opposed to thinking, oh I need to do this, I

1093
00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:09,759
Speaker 3: need to I need to be here, I need to

1094
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:11,720
Speaker 3: work out this. Still, I got to work on that.

1095
00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:13,760
Speaker 3: That's not like that for me. It's just that water,

1096
00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:15,839
Speaker 3: do you see what I mean? So I have an

1097
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:17,920
Speaker 3: advantage at the fact that I'm not working at trying

1098
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:20,879
Speaker 3: to be consistent. It's just absolutely natural. And I think

1099
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:23,080
Speaker 3: that's just the only difference. I'm not I made a

1100
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:26,400
Speaker 3: flesh blood. I'm not Einstein. My IQ is not crazy.

1101
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 3: I'm a bit sharp. Yeah, I have great instincts, but

1102
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:34,080
Speaker 3: I'm just like anybody else. But the consistency is the

1103
00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:36,160
Speaker 3: only difference that separates me most people.

1104
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:40,160
Speaker 6: People ask me all the time, like what's the what's

1105
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:41,799
Speaker 6: the number one thing I could do? And I say,

1106
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:46,480
Speaker 6: for us, originality in consistency, originality in consistency, that's the

1107
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 6: two biggest pillars that I always say all the time, like,

1108
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:52,240
Speaker 6: you have to be originally you have to be creative,

1109
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:54,239
Speaker 6: but you have to be consistent. In Consistency is the

1110
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:58,840
Speaker 6: probably the most underrated trait in business. People don't understand

1111
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:01,359
Speaker 6: how difficult it is to consistent, like just to do

1112
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:03,920
Speaker 6: one thing every single day for five years.

1113
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:08,440
Speaker 5: It's not easy. It's not easy. You said that.

1114
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:11,239
Speaker 7: Obviously you're in the country that is not meant to

1115
00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:15,240
Speaker 7: have black males elevated or black people, black people period

1116
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:19,320
Speaker 7: like in general. Right, So I'm wondering when you're making

1117
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 7: films and you're making who is the audience? Right, are

1118
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 7: we specifically looking for black men and women or are

1119
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:29,520
Speaker 7: we trying to get an international feel to it? Because

1120
00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 7: there's got to be a balance between, you know, making

1121
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:36,920
Speaker 7: it as a worldwide piece and trying to have authentic London,

1122
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:37,960
Speaker 7: England feel to it.

1123
00:54:38,040 --> 00:54:39,640
Speaker 5: Right, So how do you do that?

1124
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:42,640
Speaker 3: I can answer that question quite simply. I'm not trying

1125
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 3: to make black films. I'm trying to make good films.

1126
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:45,680
Speaker 5: Right.

1127
00:54:46,640 --> 00:54:49,880
Speaker 3: However, Well, I will champion and I'd say this straight

1128
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:53,680
Speaker 3: on camera. I will make sure that we have black

1129
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 3: cost representation, black crew representation, and I don't close the

1130
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:02,719
Speaker 3: doors on certain people that didn't know what open.

1131
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:04,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's.

1132
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 3: That's the difference, you know, That's what I would do

1133
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:09,960
Speaker 3: because and definitely international films for sure. I'm not trying

1134
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:12,680
Speaker 3: to pigeon hole or make something London centric at all.

1135
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:16,240
Speaker 3: I want an international movies moving forward that are good movies.

1136
00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 3: But I'm going to make sure that the doors that

1137
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:20,640
Speaker 3: are closed on our people. And there's a lot of them,

1138
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 3: and I've been one of those guys. I was just

1139
00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:24,640
Speaker 3: I was just hard enough to kick through the door.

1140
00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:26,759
Speaker 3: A lot of people aren't built that way, and they

1141
00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:30,520
Speaker 3: just they just become depressed, or they lower their self esteem,

1142
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:33,880
Speaker 3: or they keep us doing these little baby projects and

1143
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:37,360
Speaker 3: keep us busy, you know, like worker bees, which is

1144
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:40,160
Speaker 3: not not it's not cool. So I'm just trying to

1145
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:42,120
Speaker 3: make sure that I can have that through my platform.

1146
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:44,200
Speaker 3: I can say, right, okay, let me give this black

1147
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:48,640
Speaker 3: female lead the cast because because she's the best person

1148
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:51,360
Speaker 3: for the job. Let me give this black gaffer or

1149
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:54,640
Speaker 3: this black art director. Like That's something that we will

1150
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:58,600
Speaker 3: do moving forward to just help be another avenue for

1151
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:00,800
Speaker 3: these people to have their platform, for them to shine,

1152
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:03,280
Speaker 3: get paid, continue their career evolve.

1153
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:07,279
Speaker 7: I mean there's certain shows that we watched growing up.

1154
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:11,680
Speaker 7: I mean they're global, So I'm wondering, like what were

1155
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:16,399
Speaker 7: those types of shows or maybe movies that inspired you coming? Uh?

1156
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 3: You know, I like all types of films, you know,

1157
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:21,440
Speaker 3: like I'm not I'm not really into like romantic comedies,

1158
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:24,480
Speaker 3: like like action films. If you talk about what I

1159
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:26,360
Speaker 3: watched growing up, it's not really relevant to this. But

1160
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:29,800
Speaker 3: remember those old showering movies where the dubbing the voice

1161
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 3: was crazy.

1162
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:32,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like man, I.

1163
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:34,319
Speaker 3: Just love that. But that's what we're talking when I was

1164
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:37,040
Speaker 3: a kid, you know, and obviously with all the old

1165
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:38,880
Speaker 3: Hollywood films that my eighties baby.

1166
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:42,560
Speaker 2: So I think his perf is your birthday, right?

1167
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:43,760
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1168
00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:54,239
Speaker 2: I was on twenty seconds too. Yeah yeah man, okay.

1169
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:56,560
Speaker 7: Happy free, happy pree birthday.

1170
00:56:56,640 --> 00:57:00,000
Speaker 2: Yeah man, it's the prices couch.

1171
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:04,239
Speaker 6: So so all right, how do you see like what's

1172
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:07,080
Speaker 6: your tenure? Player, Like, how do you see yourself in

1173
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:10,799
Speaker 6: five ten years? Like what would you like to accomplish

1174
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:12,399
Speaker 6: and how would you like to scale up?

1175
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:17,360
Speaker 2: Good question? Good question.

1176
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:24,080
Speaker 3: I would just say more man, more like that's just

1177
00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 3: been the mindset since the first property, the first company

1178
00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:32,400
Speaker 3: you know more, but healthy growth and just being inclusive

1179
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:36,040
Speaker 3: and making sure that I understand that. I feel like

1180
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:40,400
Speaker 3: I have a responsibility now to help everybody, you know,

1181
00:57:40,880 --> 00:57:45,160
Speaker 3: come up and help help people avoid mistakes that I

1182
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:46,720
Speaker 3: had to make because remember I didn't have a mentor,

1183
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:47,760
Speaker 3: so I made a lot of.

1184
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:48,520
Speaker 2: Mistakes my life.

1185
00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:51,120
Speaker 3: It's not all been smooth, like yeah, I'm at the

1186
00:57:51,120 --> 00:57:55,440
Speaker 3: top of a mountain smiling and waving, But it weren't

1187
00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:58,480
Speaker 3: just like that. There was this right and that's something

1188
00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:01,840
Speaker 3: that I don't talk about and one one day I

1189
00:58:01,880 --> 00:58:04,320
Speaker 3: will probably go into more detail about what that was.

1190
00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:06,880
Speaker 2: But it's been up and down, man. So it's like,

1191
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:08,160
Speaker 2: I want.

1192
00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:12,320
Speaker 3: To be a person and advocate for people that are

1193
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 3: struggling to achieve their goals, be a platform that people

1194
00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:20,960
Speaker 3: can learn from, and be inclusive. In terms of the

1195
00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:25,120
Speaker 3: film industry, I'd like to help a lot more effinnent

1196
00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:29,440
Speaker 3: minorities in not having to go through a lot of

1197
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:31,560
Speaker 3: the things I went through. You know, I had to

1198
00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:34,800
Speaker 3: do it myself, and we shouldn't have to be in

1199
00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:37,080
Speaker 3: an industry where the only way for you to get

1200
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:39,200
Speaker 3: an opportunity is for you to do it yourself, like

1201
00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:40,600
Speaker 3: you should be in an industry that is a bit

1202
00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:42,600
Speaker 3: more of a fair playing field where you can get

1203
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:46,280
Speaker 3: an opportunity because you're great, not because you fit in

1204
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:48,440
Speaker 3: or you look right to understand.

1205
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:49,920
Speaker 2: So I want to try to change that.

1206
00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:53,640
Speaker 3: In terms of property, man, I've got a goal, you know,

1207
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:56,000
Speaker 3: I want to get to one hundred million portfolio.

1208
00:58:56,120 --> 00:58:57,520
Speaker 2: That's my number in my head.

1209
00:58:57,760 --> 00:58:59,840
Speaker 6: So with the real estate, going back to real estate

1210
00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:03,080
Speaker 6: is a scaling model to get bigger like buildings.

1211
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:07,880
Speaker 3: Next absolutely, yeah, I'm I complete on a deal in

1212
00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:12,760
Speaker 3: April for a ground zero project. So from complete scratch

1213
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 3: knocking down an old warehouse, I'm building a set of

1214
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:17,400
Speaker 3: luxury apartments.

1215
00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:19,840
Speaker 2: So it will probably it would just be more more

1216
00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:20,200
Speaker 2: of that.

1217
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:21,440
Speaker 5: You know where you're gonna do that?

1218
00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:23,760
Speaker 2: Essex as well, but a bit closer to London.

1219
00:59:24,040 --> 00:59:28,120
Speaker 6: Okay, closer to London and help how many apartments twenty twenty?

1220
00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:30,640
Speaker 5: Yeah? Okay, we're you gonna name the building? Probly? What

1221
00:59:30,640 --> 00:59:31,439
Speaker 5: are you gonna name the building?

1222
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:32,720
Speaker 2: Probably after one of my daughters?

1223
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:33,640
Speaker 5: Okay, we'll talk.

1224
00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:38,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's another another whatever you know DJ Envy the

1225
00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:38,720
Speaker 6: breakfast club.

1226
00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:42,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, not personally, but yeah, because yea, So he's in

1227
00:59:42,520 --> 00:59:46,520
Speaker 3: real estate heavy and his partner Caesar, So they developed

1228
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:49,200
Speaker 3: like a big project and that he named he named

1229
00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:49,320
Speaker 3: it that.

1230
00:59:49,760 --> 00:59:52,160
Speaker 2: Wow, it's amazing, man, that's some stafts.

1231
00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:52,439
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1232
00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:55,320
Speaker 6: So on the on the developmental side for real estate,

1233
00:59:56,520 --> 00:59:59,040
Speaker 6: what's the process for that out here? Is it like

1234
00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:03,600
Speaker 6: a little bit harder or is it kind of similar

1235
01:00:03,600 --> 01:00:04,880
Speaker 6: to how well you've had only know how it is

1236
01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:06,840
Speaker 6: in the States, But like, yeah, what's the what's the

1237
01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:11,040
Speaker 6: process that actually developed apartment building from scratch?

1238
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 3: What the good thing is regarding regarding qualifying for property?

1239
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:23,120
Speaker 3: The qualification has no skin tone, right, that's the good news.

1240
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:25,560
Speaker 3: Your accounts or your accounts, that's what anybody cares about.

1241
01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:27,840
Speaker 2: What's your P and L is saying? What's your balance sheet's saying?

1242
01:00:27,960 --> 01:00:31,400
Speaker 3: And that's basically that, you know, in terms of being

1243
01:00:31,840 --> 01:00:34,800
Speaker 3: real estate, anybody can do real estate, but unfortunately you

1244
01:00:34,880 --> 01:00:37,400
Speaker 3: kind of need capital if you want to be doing development,

1245
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:40,160
Speaker 3: and you will not get finance unless you have an

1246
01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:43,240
Speaker 3: element of money anyway, or you have businesses where your

1247
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:46,400
Speaker 3: accounts can cash flow. What's called stress testing, you know,

1248
01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:49,760
Speaker 3: to make sure that if no revenue is generating that property,

1249
01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:51,080
Speaker 3: can you maintain it?

1250
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:52,960
Speaker 2: Can you maintain the service?

1251
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:56,640
Speaker 3: The debt level so it is not the sort of

1252
01:00:56,680 --> 01:00:58,920
Speaker 3: thing you can do from stage one, you know. But

1253
01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:03,240
Speaker 3: anybody that's just getting into the game, you know, twenty

1254
01:01:03,320 --> 01:01:07,040
Speaker 3: thirty forty grand, you can start small and flip. You

1255
01:01:07,040 --> 01:01:09,840
Speaker 3: won't be able to remortgage refinance on that type of

1256
01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:11,960
Speaker 3: deal and get your money back because there's not enough

1257
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:14,080
Speaker 3: money in it to get back. But you can still

1258
01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:16,680
Speaker 3: do flips. Make a ten or twelve or fifteen people.

1259
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:17,840
Speaker 3: You could do that.

1260
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 6: You know, what are some good areas to that you

1261
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:22,440
Speaker 6: can invest in.

1262
01:01:23,920 --> 01:01:26,640
Speaker 5: The greater London area? And I know London is probably saturated.

1263
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:29,320
Speaker 3: Is I think any area is a good area because

1264
01:01:29,320 --> 01:01:32,000
Speaker 3: it's what you pay for the property. Right If I

1265
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:35,920
Speaker 3: if I've got a twenty million pounds three story property

1266
01:01:35,960 --> 01:01:39,080
Speaker 3: in Hyde Park, but I can buy it for seventeen

1267
01:01:39,120 --> 01:01:42,160
Speaker 3: million and it's going to cost me a million to refurb,

1268
01:01:42,680 --> 01:01:45,840
Speaker 3: then I'm gonna buy it, refurb it, flip it. I

1269
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:47,920
Speaker 3: can't remortgage that because I'm not what I can, but

1270
01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:49,440
Speaker 3: I'm not going to get my money back. I'll just

1271
01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:52,800
Speaker 3: flip that and make a two mil you know. So

1272
01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:56,080
Speaker 3: that's how I would do that. What I would say

1273
01:01:56,160 --> 01:02:00,600
Speaker 3: is in terms of areas to be more technical areas

1274
01:02:00,640 --> 01:02:05,000
Speaker 3: that are on the up in terms of the capital

1275
01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:09,560
Speaker 3: growth potential. Most of the areas in London are done already.

1276
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:14,000
Speaker 3: Edmonton is in North London. Is I've got property there

1277
01:02:14,200 --> 01:02:17,680
Speaker 3: that's a very very good location. Because if you've got

1278
01:02:17,720 --> 01:02:20,560
Speaker 3: an area that's really really cheap, but the area is

1279
01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:22,520
Speaker 3: right next to it it's a lot more expensive, then

1280
01:02:22,560 --> 01:02:24,240
Speaker 3: you have a thing in propit called the ripple effect

1281
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:27,680
Speaker 3: and it's just a matter of years. And this is

1282
01:02:27,680 --> 01:02:31,400
Speaker 3: without the regeneration process as well. Regeneration potential. When I

1283
01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:34,240
Speaker 3: say that, I mean where the local borough council say

1284
01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:37,200
Speaker 3: we're going to put in fifty million regeneration into this area.

1285
01:02:37,440 --> 01:02:39,560
Speaker 3: Take that to one side, because that's another way you

1286
01:02:39,600 --> 01:02:42,800
Speaker 3: can find out what areas have regeneration. Good area to buy,

1287
01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:45,320
Speaker 3: but just from the ripple effect to loane like Tottenham,

1288
01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:48,800
Speaker 3: for example, used to be pretty run down, you know,

1289
01:02:49,160 --> 01:02:52,919
Speaker 3: it was known like Brixton, but now Tottenham is kind

1290
01:02:52,920 --> 01:02:54,200
Speaker 3: of being gentrified as well.

1291
01:02:54,320 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 2: They're building apartments.

1292
01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:58,840
Speaker 3: Everywhere that they can fit space, and the prices are gone.

1293
01:02:58,880 --> 01:03:04,600
Speaker 3: For example, a three bedroom house in Tottenham ten years

1294
01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:09,160
Speaker 3: ago would have cost you maybe two hundred grand two

1295
01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:13,120
Speaker 3: hundred thousand pounds two fifty maybe ten years ago, right,

1296
01:03:13,560 --> 01:03:16,240
Speaker 3: maybe three hundred that push. Now you're looking at six

1297
01:03:16,360 --> 01:03:20,480
Speaker 3: hundred and six fifty. That's crazy return, you know, and

1298
01:03:20,680 --> 01:03:23,400
Speaker 3: Edmonton is probably five years away from that. So I'm

1299
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:26,840
Speaker 3: buying more in that area because it's the ripple. You

1300
01:03:26,880 --> 01:03:29,760
Speaker 3: had the hybrid is in ten, then you had Tottenham

1301
01:03:29,880 --> 01:03:33,120
Speaker 3: that was the ripple, and then next is Edmonton with me.

1302
01:03:33,520 --> 01:03:35,439
Speaker 3: Then after that it's end Field and it goes out.

1303
01:03:35,480 --> 01:03:37,760
Speaker 3: But there's not many areas left. But I would say

1304
01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:39,880
Speaker 3: what you should do again a bit of advice to people.

1305
01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:43,240
Speaker 3: There's a website called right Move that is our national website.

1306
01:03:43,240 --> 01:03:44,919
Speaker 3: For a property. You want to see a property value,

1307
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:47,720
Speaker 3: go to right Move, Great More, right Move Yeah, and

1308
01:03:47,760 --> 01:03:50,160
Speaker 3: then you go onto that and it tells you all

1309
01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 3: the properties that are for sale in the country. It's

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Speaker 3: all it has to be on our website and typing bracket,

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Speaker 3: say for example three hundred thousand, three bedroom house in

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Speaker 3: and then put your parameter as London. See what's for

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Speaker 3: self look at those areas. If it's only a couple

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Speaker 3: of properties, that means that you know, that's your barrier

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Speaker 3: to entry for that price. So you want to get

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Speaker 3: your the property for us as low to that number

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Speaker 3: as possible. So in two, three, four, five years, that

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Speaker 3: three hundred ground property is going to be worth three fifty.

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Speaker 3: Sell the property, make your fifty thousand profit, get your

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Speaker 3: of a deposit back. Now you're in the game. It's

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Speaker 3: really it's not that hard. Obviously there's levels to this,

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Speaker 3: but it's not that hard. But even the entry level,

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Speaker 3: it's not difficult.

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Speaker 7: Yes, So I mean that's extensive in the real estate

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Speaker 7: side for a goal. I want to talk about the

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Speaker 7: production side, like what's the goal because obviously films is

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Speaker 7: something that you're doing now, but as you make bigger films,

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01:04:44,800 --> 01:04:47,200
Speaker 7: the budgets get bigger. Absolutely, so you know, I want

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Speaker 7: to talk about how we're going to finance that, but

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Speaker 7: also maybe from getting shows that are put on TV,

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Speaker 7: sitcoms and licensing deals and syndication, like all these things

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Speaker 7: in the plans for you.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 5: So.

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Speaker 3: I'm currently making my first movie at the moment, which

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Speaker 3: is a psychological thriller called Forgive Me.

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Speaker 5: Father, Give Me Father, Give Me Father. Psychological thriller.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of like I would say, it's a

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Speaker 3: psychological thriller slash slash slash movie. So like so like

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Speaker 3: I would.

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Speaker 2: Say it's like Saw Meat seven.

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Speaker 3: That's a film twist, right, that's a psychological right.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so obviously like not trying to so it's like

1345
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Speaker 3: dark trying.

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Speaker 2: To set the bar.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like a dark.

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Speaker 2: Super dark.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So that's currently in production as we speak.

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Speaker 2: We're on set.

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Speaker 3: We're in week three of a four week schedule and

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Speaker 3: we go to post next month or probably the end

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Speaker 3: of beginning of April. And that's my first film, you know,

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Speaker 3: and part of that movie has been shot at my

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Speaker 3: new my New Country location, you know, so that was

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Speaker 3: that's quite special because I've christened that location as for

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Speaker 3: the first movie, one of many that will be shot

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Speaker 3: in that in that area.

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Speaker 2: The location. My movie is the first one.

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Speaker 5: Bro.

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Speaker 3: So like that, that's that's quite special in a sentimental level,

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Speaker 3: you know, that's quite special.

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Speaker 6: So as far as the production, are you looking for,

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Speaker 6: like what's the process?

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Speaker 5: Somebody write a script, correct, then they bring it to you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I would purchased the script.

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Speaker 5: You buy the script, buy the script.

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Speaker 2: So we can own the I P.

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Speaker 5: You own the I P. Absolutely, you have to own

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Speaker 5: I P. For me.

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Speaker 2: For my MODEA, I didn't do with ownership.

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Speaker 6: So you buy it and then you hire a director correct,

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Speaker 6: and then of course the actors or whatever.

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Speaker 3: You just put the vision, so I'll exec produce slash

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Speaker 3: produce the movie.

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Speaker 5: So I overseived the situation absolutely.

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Speaker 6: You're not like hands only directing it. You don't tell,

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Speaker 6: you don't tell direct, You let the director do his thing.

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Speaker 5: Of course, you just kind of give him something. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, But but what I would do from kind of overseeing

1382
01:07:07,840 --> 01:07:10,520
Speaker 3: I is look at that budget, make sure it's realistic.

1383
01:07:10,560 --> 01:07:12,880
Speaker 3: So I use my film experience. Is this realistic? What

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01:07:12,920 --> 01:07:14,960
Speaker 3: can I bring to the table, What value can I add?

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Speaker 3: What lines can I bring in? And just make sure

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Speaker 3: everybody is happy from from afar and know that our

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Speaker 3: exit is in place?

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Speaker 2: You know, so just just what executive producers they really.

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Speaker 5: You have it? This is dope. We definitely got to

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Speaker 5: do something there.

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01:07:29,240 --> 01:07:31,400
Speaker 7: Yeah, sure, I know, two guys, if you ever need.

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Speaker 6: That helps, this is this is a good one man.

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01:07:40,280 --> 01:07:43,400
Speaker 5: So what would you say? Parting words like what would

1394
01:07:43,400 --> 01:07:44,960
Speaker 5: you what would you say to the to the.

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Speaker 6: Young boy that's in East London or Brixton that has

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Speaker 6: an idea, has a vision, but you still trying to

1397
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Speaker 6: put it together.

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Speaker 5: Hasn't really figured it out yet, Like.

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Speaker 6: What what would your advice be be to them based

1400
01:07:57,600 --> 01:07:59,680
Speaker 6: on the stuff that the ups and downs, trials and

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01:07:59,680 --> 01:08:01,080
Speaker 6: should that you want to.

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Speaker 3: I would say keep experimenting because just because you don't

1403
01:08:06,280 --> 01:08:08,600
Speaker 3: know what you want to do isn't a bad thing

1404
01:08:08,840 --> 01:08:12,400
Speaker 3: because sometimes when you know what you don't want to do,

1405
01:08:12,760 --> 01:08:15,800
Speaker 3: that's also progress you with me, So you can be

1406
01:08:15,840 --> 01:08:17,960
Speaker 3: doing something and thinking, now, this wasn't for me, that

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01:08:17,760 --> 01:08:18,519
Speaker 3: was terrible.

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01:08:18,520 --> 01:08:19,400
Speaker 2: I don't know what I want to do.

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01:08:19,600 --> 01:08:20,960
Speaker 3: Well, okay, you don't know what you want to do,

1410
01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:22,639
Speaker 3: but you now you know you don't want to do that,

1411
01:08:23,240 --> 01:08:25,559
Speaker 3: so you're closer to finding what you do want to do.

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01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:27,960
Speaker 3: So just staying with it and having faith and knowing

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Speaker 3: that you know, if you put out good energy nine

1414
01:08:31,040 --> 01:08:34,000
Speaker 3: times out of ten, yeah, good things will happen. Just

1415
01:08:34,040 --> 01:08:37,080
Speaker 3: be humble, be hard working, and have integrity, you know,

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01:08:37,240 --> 01:08:39,679
Speaker 3: because losing yourself is something that can happen very easily

1417
01:08:39,760 --> 01:08:42,759
Speaker 3: when you're chasing money or you know, or your dreams.

1418
01:08:42,960 --> 01:08:45,879
Speaker 3: And just staying true to yourself and believing in yourself

1419
01:08:45,920 --> 01:08:49,080
Speaker 3: because people will not always open the door for you,

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01:08:49,400 --> 01:08:51,439
Speaker 3: So it doesn't mean that you have no value.

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01:08:52,200 --> 01:08:54,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, so believe in yourself. That's where the value comes from.

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Speaker 6: Let me ask you this too before we leave. We

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01:08:56,960 --> 01:08:59,760
Speaker 6: see a lot of UK actors Black UK actors. Of

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01:08:59,760 --> 01:09:01,680
Speaker 6: course it is the probably the most famous one, but

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01:09:01,720 --> 01:09:04,799
Speaker 6: there's a lot of them that have going to America

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01:09:05,360 --> 01:09:09,680
Speaker 6: become like really big stars in America in Hollywood. Do

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01:09:09,760 --> 01:09:12,439
Speaker 6: you have your eyes set on Hollywood at all? Like

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01:09:12,600 --> 01:09:16,080
Speaker 6: do you ever see yourself actually going to America and

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01:09:16,800 --> 01:09:18,040
Speaker 6: being in the Hollywood world?

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Speaker 3: Not particularly because it's different for actors. I'm behind the screen.

1431
01:09:22,720 --> 01:09:26,800
Speaker 3: I'm providing huge facilities, so a lot of America movies

1432
01:09:26,840 --> 01:09:29,320
Speaker 3: are shot here. So as far as I'm concerned, I'm

1433
01:09:29,320 --> 01:09:30,479
Speaker 3: wenting for Hollywood to come to me.

1434
01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:34,120
Speaker 7: Like I like that, I'm not going to do it.

1435
01:09:34,240 --> 01:09:36,519
Speaker 5: I like check your neighbor and Tyler as well.

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01:09:38,479 --> 01:09:43,120
Speaker 6: I link would you would you ever be? I know

1437
01:09:43,160 --> 01:09:46,000
Speaker 6: you said you you your models own everything. But are

1438
01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:47,360
Speaker 6: you open to partnerships?

1439
01:09:47,400 --> 01:09:50,439
Speaker 3: Absolutely if the if the value add is there, if

1440
01:09:50,439 --> 01:09:54,519
Speaker 3: the partner adds value that I can't add, and it's

1441
01:09:54,560 --> 01:09:56,360
Speaker 3: it's a match made in heaven for sure, you know.

1442
01:09:56,479 --> 01:09:58,240
Speaker 2: So the right collaboration of course.

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01:09:58,720 --> 01:10:02,400
Speaker 7: So we can see like media takes London, media takes London.

1444
01:10:02,840 --> 01:10:07,439
Speaker 5: Maybe this is this is a good one man.

1445
01:10:07,720 --> 01:10:10,120
Speaker 6: I appreciate it. What would it will be your last words?

1446
01:10:10,360 --> 01:10:14,480
Speaker 6: How can the people follow you against social media? Website,

1447
01:10:14,520 --> 01:10:16,400
Speaker 6: any new prot you talk about the movie, any other

1448
01:10:16,439 --> 01:10:18,160
Speaker 6: new projects that you have, anything that you want to

1449
01:10:18,160 --> 01:10:18,960
Speaker 6: make the people aware of.

1450
01:10:19,280 --> 01:10:21,840
Speaker 3: Listen man, Like as I said, we're open to all

1451
01:10:21,880 --> 01:10:23,639
Speaker 3: all the companies that open to all. You can find

1452
01:10:23,960 --> 01:10:28,040
Speaker 3: Sydney House and Studios, master by Media Socials, we're there.

1453
01:10:28,080 --> 01:10:31,040
Speaker 3: We'll link up with that. People can follow me on Instagram. Really,

1454
01:10:31,120 --> 01:10:35,600
Speaker 3: that's that's the best Instagram. Antoine Dixon Ballot, No, no, no,

1455
01:10:35,760 --> 01:10:38,880
Speaker 3: haypphen so Antoine Dixon Ballot. Just that's all one word

1456
01:10:38,960 --> 01:10:40,040
Speaker 3: or one word no happen.

1457
01:10:40,240 --> 01:10:42,840
Speaker 6: And and people if they want to like actually writ

1458
01:10:42,960 --> 01:10:43,559
Speaker 6: the facility.

1459
01:10:43,560 --> 01:10:44,840
Speaker 5: All the information is like on the website.

1460
01:10:44,880 --> 01:10:46,439
Speaker 2: Absolutely the website, everything's there.

1461
01:10:46,560 --> 01:10:49,879
Speaker 3: We've got Syne hyphen House dot com for the rental company.

1462
01:10:50,160 --> 01:10:53,960
Speaker 3: We've got East London Studios or one word dot com

1463
01:10:54,200 --> 01:10:57,960
Speaker 3: uh for the film studio, and Sydney Scope Optics for

1464
01:10:58,040 --> 01:10:59,479
Speaker 3: the lens manufacturing company.

1465
01:11:01,080 --> 01:11:03,200
Speaker 7: Troy housekeeping it them. Yeah, this won't be the last

1466
01:11:03,200 --> 01:11:06,240
Speaker 7: time we see each other. Sure, I want to thank

1467
01:11:06,280 --> 01:11:08,679
Speaker 7: you again, I want to thank you. I'll take London

1468
01:11:08,680 --> 01:11:12,120
Speaker 7: family for the hospitality, Take London. It's been an amazing

1469
01:11:12,160 --> 01:11:14,400
Speaker 7: time here in London. So shout to y'all. Shout all

1470
01:11:14,439 --> 01:11:16,360
Speaker 7: the UK earn, Shout to all the earners world. Why

1471
01:11:16,760 --> 01:11:19,280
Speaker 7: we really appreciate y'all. Every time we go somewhere, it

1472
01:11:19,320 --> 01:11:21,200
Speaker 7: feels like home. So that's I know that has a

1473
01:11:21,200 --> 01:11:23,120
Speaker 7: lot to do with y'all. So shout to y'all. Shout

1474
01:11:23,160 --> 01:11:25,360
Speaker 7: everybody disappointed them, Shout out to the team. We got

1475
01:11:25,360 --> 01:11:29,080
Speaker 7: the team here in London with us, Mike obviously, and

1476
01:11:29,320 --> 01:11:32,120
Speaker 7: Jamal Yogi's here with us and b he's here behind

1477
01:11:32,160 --> 01:11:34,679
Speaker 7: the scenes shooting content for us. So shout to everybody

1478
01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:36,320
Speaker 7: that made this a special one. And shout out to

1479
01:11:36,320 --> 01:11:37,360
Speaker 7: my boys birthday yesterday.

1480
01:11:37,360 --> 01:11:39,799
Speaker 5: Man, we went up again. This has been a legendary.

1481
01:11:40,080 --> 01:11:43,599
Speaker 5: I don't think I've been out this much London.

1482
01:11:43,640 --> 01:11:46,640
Speaker 6: London is definitely a party town once you can. Thank

1483
01:11:46,640 --> 01:11:49,840
Speaker 6: you to Ashley actually making this about that and super Throw.

1484
01:11:49,880 --> 01:11:51,679
Speaker 6: I'm glad we got a chance to shoot content while

1485
01:11:51,680 --> 01:11:53,920
Speaker 6: we were out here because I think it's important for

1486
01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:56,960
Speaker 6: voices from all.

1487
01:11:56,800 --> 01:11:57,760
Speaker 5: Over the world to be heard.

1488
01:11:57,760 --> 01:11:59,920
Speaker 6: Because it's like we have a strong following in the UK,

1489
01:12:00,520 --> 01:12:02,960
Speaker 6: but we just don't want to just have American based

1490
01:12:02,960 --> 01:12:05,599
Speaker 6: content that they have to just listen to. We want

1491
01:12:05,640 --> 01:12:07,760
Speaker 6: to have you know, UK based content as well, in

1492
01:12:07,800 --> 01:12:10,600
Speaker 6: the same way we go to Nigeria or Jamaica.

1493
01:12:10,280 --> 01:12:11,360
Speaker 5: Or different parts of the world.

1494
01:12:11,400 --> 01:12:13,120
Speaker 6: So that's why every time we travel we always try

1495
01:12:13,160 --> 01:12:14,720
Speaker 6: to you know, connect and just you know, the power

1496
01:12:14,800 --> 01:12:17,519
Speaker 6: relationships is extremely important. I feel like we just have

1497
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:21,840
Speaker 6: to do more course continental collaboration and you know, we

1498
01:12:21,920 --> 01:12:24,720
Speaker 6: have a lot more similarities than we have differences. But like,

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01:12:24,960 --> 01:12:26,679
Speaker 6: you know, hopefully this would be an education for people

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01:12:26,680 --> 01:12:30,280
Speaker 6: in America as well that might not be fully educated

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01:12:30,360 --> 01:12:32,760
Speaker 6: or fully you know, aware of what's going on in

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Speaker 6: the UK.

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01:12:33,560 --> 01:12:34,800
Speaker 5: But everybody is like.

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01:12:39,160 --> 01:12:41,320
Speaker 6: Yeah, they think everybody drink your tea and crumpets and

1505
01:12:42,360 --> 01:12:44,160
Speaker 6: you know, it's just it's just comes from a lack

1506
01:12:44,200 --> 01:12:45,280
Speaker 6: of education.

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01:12:45,160 --> 01:12:45,360
Speaker 5: Like no.

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01:12:45,560 --> 01:12:47,800
Speaker 6: So so now hopefully you know they can start to

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01:12:47,840 --> 01:12:50,920
Speaker 6: see like, okay, yeah, just like me, just a little

1510
01:12:50,920 --> 01:12:51,559
Speaker 6: different accent.

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01:12:51,640 --> 01:12:54,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, they's a cute instead of line.

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01:12:55,920 --> 01:12:55,960
Speaker 8: No.

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Speaker 6: But I appreciate it, brother man. Anything that we can

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01:12:58,280 --> 01:12:59,639
Speaker 6: do to help, you know further, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, guys, it's been an absolute pleasure, man, thank you

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01:13:02,920 --> 01:13:05,200
Speaker 3: super on our love what you guys are doing. It's

1517
01:13:05,360 --> 01:13:08,519
Speaker 3: super amazing as well. Thanks and your platform is crazy.

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01:13:08,600 --> 01:13:10,280
Speaker 3: So so happy to be here.

1519
01:13:10,360 --> 01:13:13,719
Speaker 6: Thank you brother, Appreciate you all right, ladies and gentlemen,

1520
01:13:13,800 --> 01:13:14,559
Speaker 6: that is a rap.

1521
01:13:14,600 --> 01:13:16,479
Speaker 5: We will see you next week. Peace.

1522
01:13:16,600 --> 01:13:23,880
Speaker 4: Peace, my graduates from my school being forced bad drop bag,

1523
01:13:24,040 --> 01:13:29,439
Speaker 4: drop drop.

1524
01:13:26,320 --> 01:13:40,559
Speaker 7: Drop behind the delivery trucks that keep your life stocked.

1525
01:13:40,680 --> 01:13:43,599
Speaker 7: Thousands of employees at BP go to work every day.

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01:13:43,840 --> 01:13:47,439
Speaker 7: People bringing a new offshore production platform online. People making

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